TY - BOOK AU - Nguỹên,Phan Qúê Mai TI - The mountains sing: a novel SN - 1643751352 AV - PR9560.9 N45 .M68 2021 U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Chapel Hill, North Carolina PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Families KW - Vietnam KW - Fiction KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N1 - The tallest mountains -- Red on the white grains -- The fortune teller -- Getting up and falling down again -- The great hunger -- My father's gift -- The land reform -- The journey south -- The walk -- My mother's secret -- Destination -- The country bumpkin boy -- The way to happiness -- My Uncle Minh -- Facing the enemy -- My grandmother's songs N2 - "The multigenerational tale of the Tr̀ân family, set against the backdrop of the Vîẹt Nam War. Tr̀ân Dịêu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Ṇôi, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Ĥò Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved country but her family apart"-- ER -