She weeps each time you're born
(Book)

"A novel"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270).

"At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we've never encountered before: through Rabbit's inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism--Rabbit's ability to hear the dead--the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period"--Dust jacket flap.