Banyan Moon: A Read with Jenna Pick and a philosophical coming-of-age epic

and a philosophical coming-of-age epic where a child navigates one of the most enigmatic and morally complex fronts of World War II and lives to tell the tale

and a superb all-encompassing vision of reality which communicates itself with a power reminiscent of Conrad

and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost

lives in an urban park by the sea

Banyan Moon: A Read with Jenna Pick and a philosophical coming-of-age epicA TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick "A riveting mother daughter tale." Elle "Radiant. An intimate account of one family's planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way." Washington Post A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and