Book Banter with E.M. Tran

We are excited to welcome New Orleans author, E.M. Tran to Book Banter!
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“An engrossing story of the ties among mothers, daughters, and sisters, sprinkled with humor and intrigue. Fans of the strong women protagonists of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s The Mountains Sing will likely appreciate this.” – Library Journal

A lively, spellbinding tale about the extraordinary women within a Vietnamese immigrant family—and the ancient zodiac legend that binds them together

“Daughters of the New Year is engrossing and exhilarating… unifying and contorting a family tied by love, debts, humor, and ghosts. Tran has turned the question of what a family can be into a complex, heartfelt mural of possibility.” -Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot

 

E.M. Tran’s debut novel, DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR, is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins. Her stories, essays, and reviews can be found in such places as the Georgia Review, Joyland Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review Online, and more. She spent an inordinate proportion of her adult life working towards an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and a PhD in English & Creative Writing from Ohio University.  She is from and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two dogs. She was born in the year of the Earth Snake. Ask her about Gilmore Girls or The Bachelor franchise if you want to be her friend.