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. Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jades father is determined to restore a decrepit home to its former glory and Jade is the only person who feels the soul-crushing devastation of colonialism lingering within its walls. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house–the home they have always wanted–will not rest until it destroys them. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves cryptic warnings: Don’t eat.Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. 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. In her New York Times Bestselling debut, Trang Thanh Tran announces herself as a powerful new voice in horror. 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. My review copy of Trang Thanh Tran’s YA horror debut She Is a Haunting compared it to Silvia Moreno Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and Emily X.R. 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. Books I loved recently: THE FAITHLESS by C.L. She Is a Haunting, Trang Thanh Tran ( Bloomsbury Children’s Books 978-1-54761-081-5, 15.17. When I was working forensics, I always thought, we do this work for the people who need us to do this work its not always the easiest thing.

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran