Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet KupersmithPart puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman. In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two headed cobra. And in 2011, a

are as dangerous as they are incalculable

where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir

the sultan

drug-riddled

And where Herod goes

This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me

As Camus argues

The plot is built on a multitude of perspectives

a good-natured rivalry turns ugly

Over the course of his 60 years

we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence

to liberate us from its tyranny