Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel

"Build Your House Around My Body begins with the disappearance of a young woman named Winnie, and works its way backwards through time, telling a story of unfinished business and long-delayed revenge. Some of its set pieces are familiar from Hollywood horror movies and Brothers Grimm fairy tales – there’s an exorcism and a haunted forest. But because this book is set in Vietnam, the forest is an overgrown rubber tree plantation and the exorcism doesn’t have crucifixes or holy water. It’s a sprawling novel that tells a ghost story spanning generations, drawing the reader into its supernatural world."