She can suffer through anything for that amount of time, or can she?Īlong for the journey with Jade and Lily are their Mom and younger brother. Unfortunately, Jade feels like she has no other option. It's sort of pushed under the rug, the reality of it all. After he walked out on them, they never dealt with that trauma. The thing is, Jade is really angry at her Dad, like really, really angry. He offers it to her on the condition that she and her little sister, Lily, go and live with him for the summer. Her estranged father, who abandoned them and moved back to Vietnam, has the money. School is expensive and she can't ask her Mom, who has sacrificed so much for them and works so hard, to contribute any more. Jade, who lives with her Mom and siblings in the United States, is getting ready to start college and is concerned about money.
She Is a Haunting is a YA-story following a girl named, Jade Nguyen, and her experiences at her father's historic, and of course, haunted, house in Vietnam. As she roots out the house’s rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house-the home her family has always wanted-will not rest until it destroys them. Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves her cryptic warnings: Don’t eat. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed.
She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.īut the house has other plans. When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic.
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