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By Violet Kupersmith

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Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith is an eerie literary book that readers commonly look for by typing phrases such as "Build Your House Around My Body book summary" and "Violet Kupersmith novel review." The book is set against the backdrop of Vietnam and has two women disappear decades apart from each other: Winnie Nguyen, a Vietnamese American, disappears in Saigon in 2010, while Binh, a teenager, disappears in 1986. Their destiny is intertwined via a complicated chronology that goes on for more than half a century, intertwining Vietnamese legend, colonial past, and otherworldly horror. Kupersmith narrates a highly symbolic story revolving around issues of identity, historical trauma, and the residual influences of colonialism. The book has a complex array of characters ranging from ghost hunters to a cryptic fortune teller to a smoke-like creature that follows the story throughout. By its non-linear narrative and sensory imagery, the book engages the metaphysical, employing body horror and magical realism to explore the ways individual and national histories entwine. A genre-bending debut, Build Your House Around My Body presents a rich reflection on the manner in which the past continues to inform the present.