E. M. Tran weaves a spellbinding multigenerational story of a Vietnamese immigrant family in New Orleans, bound together by the ancient zodiac and the secrets their ancestors left behind.

In present-day New Orleans, Xuan Trung — former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon — is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi, and Trieu diverge completely from their parents' expectations: Trac is a successful lawyer hiding her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined to uncover her familial and cultural past. Moving backward in time, Tran takes us from the high school classrooms of New Orleans to Saigon beauty pageants to twentieth-century rubber plantations, traversing a century as the Trungs are both estranged and united by the ghosts of their tumultuous history.

• E. M. Tran, Author
• Published in 2023
• Paperback
• Published by Hanover Square Press
• ISBN: 9781335016010
• 320 pages