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My other heart : a novel

My other heart : a novel

Book 2025

"A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home" -- class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends. In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Jap...