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Also by Quan Barry:

The Unveiling, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
She Weeps Each Time You're Born, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

SHE WEEPS EACH TIME YOU'RE BORN
By: Quan Barry

Pantheon
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 0307911772
EAN: 9780307911773
Kindle: B00MSRTET6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

Quan Barry’s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country’s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.

At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we’ve never encountered before: through Rabbit’s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism—Rabbit’s ability to “hear” the dead—the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it.

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