The Lotus and the Storm

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An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . . . the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao trans­ports readers back to the war, illuminating events central to twentieth-century his­tory through the lives of one Vietnamese-American family. Tuan is a former South Vietnam­ese commander of the airborne brigade who left his homeland with his daughter Mai. During the war, their lives became entwined with those of two Americans: James, a soldier, and Cliff, a military advi­sor. Forty years later, Tuan and his daugh­ter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese im­migrant community in suburban Virginia. As Mai discovers a series of devastating truths about what really happened to her family...