My Other Heart

Emma Nanami Strenner

A child vanishes on the way home to Vietnam, and two girls spend years working out who they actually are.

In June 1998 Mimi Truang is travelling home to Vietnam when her toddler disappears. The novel follows two girls searching for who they actually are, and the mothers and best friends bound up in the answer. A book about identity built around an absence that never fully resolves.

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