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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in South-East Asia

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  • Absolution
    Absolution: A Novel
    Alice McDermott
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the ...
  • The House of Doors
    Tan Twan Eng
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, ...
  • Banyan Moon
    Banyan Moon: A Novel
    Thao Thai
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the ...
  • The Women
    The Women: A Novel
    Kristin Hannah
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four ...
  • Sleeping Alone
    Ru Freeman
    Paperback: 06/07/2022
     
    In this collection of rich and textured stories about crossing borders, both real and imagined, Sleeping Alone...
  • Secrets of Happiness
    Joan Silber
    Paperback: 06/07/2022
     
    When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family - a wife and two kids - the ...
  • Things We Lost to the Water
    Eric Nguyen
    Paperback: 04/26/2022
     
    A stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain...

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