Dust Child
By Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, author ofand The Island of Missing Treesand Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more?and and 'Dust Childand is satisfying, lyrical, and deeply empathetic.and Nguyễn Phan Quế Maiand is a born storyteller.' Gabrielle Zevin, author ofand Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrowand Trang and Quynh:and sisters whoand leave their rural village for the bustling city of Saigon, desperate to find work to help their impoverished parents.and When they take jobs as bar girls', paid to flirt with American GIs, they must decide whether they are willing to turn their backs on the people they used to be. and and Phong: one of the thousands of mixed-race children abandoned by their American fathers and Vietnamese mothers. Phong grows up surrounded by rejection, insulted as a Black American imperialist', and a child of the enemy'. But he never gives up hope of finding his parents and proving he is more than a bui doi': more than the dust of life'.and and Dan: A former American helicopter pilot still plagued by regrets about his actions during theand Việt Namand war. Now he has returned in the hope of confronting the demons that refuse to fall silent.and and Set between theand Việt Namand war and the present day,and Dust Childand is a sweeping epic of family secrets and hidden heartache, from an internationally celebrated author.and 'Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is one of the most unique storytellers of our time.'and Natalie Jenner, internationally bestselling-author ofand The Jane Austen SocietyA Best Book of the Year according toand Book Riot, theand Buzzand Magazines,and Cosmopolitanand andand Reader's DigestA Most Anticipated Title according toand Sydney Morning Herald,and Salon,and NB Magazineand andand SheReads