She Weeps Each Time You're Born, by Quan Barry
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She Weeps Each Time You're Born, by Quan Barry
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Quan Barry's luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country's reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
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 through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman's struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it.
She Weeps Each Time You're Born, by Quan Barry- Amazon Sales Rank: #91911 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 513 minutes
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Mystical magical tale of a Vietnamese psychic By Patto Rabbit's birth is attended by extraordinary circumstances, and it soon becomes clear she’s no ordinary child. Born into a country where war has been killing people for over a thousand years, she hears the voices of the dead. Everyone in her family seems to have magical qualities. Her adopted mother has milky breasts that never run dry and milky skin that never sunburns. Her father has a birthmark that shines like a star. Her parakeet talks into Rabbit's ear giving practical advice.Although the plot mainly focuses on Rabbit's adventures and tribulations, there are other stories too: her grandmother's terrible experiences on a rubber plantation, her father's bitter time in a re-education camp, and the early trauma that transformed her adopted mother into silent luminous being. There are love stories and scenes of atrocities. There's a dramatic attempt to escape Vietnam by boat across the South China Sea.The sense of being in war-ravaged Vietnam is very vivid – the charred landscape, the blackened earth, the smoldering shacks giving off the smell of burning flesh. Other parts of the country are swathes of dense humid jungle, where prisoners of war are laboring under terrible conditions. No matter who’s in power, human existence remains precarious.The writing is beautiful, mystical, and so free from the conventions of storytelling that for the first forty pages or so I wasn't sure what was happening or who was who. But the mist did clear, and the narrative became absolutely engrossing. So in the end, I admired and enjoyed the book, although I would not call it easy reading. I find magical realism challenging.This powerful novel opened my eyes to the sufferings of the Vietnamese people. It invites the reader, along with Rabbit, to hear the voices of the dead.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Novel of Vietnam: Invisible Life, Custom, Culture, Along the Mekong Delta... By missmickee/bookreview Many thanks and much appreciation to Pantheon Books New York, for the ARC of "She Weeps Each Time You're Born: A Novel" by award winning author/poet Quan Barry for the purpose of this review. Barry was born in Saigon, and raised in Boston, MA. Quan Barry is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her poetry and writing have been featured in many notable publications.The novel, reflective of the other Vietnam: the river people/tribes that inhabit the Mekong Delta. Not allowed by law to congregate in large numbers, the villages were smaller, consisting mainly of women and children who cared for their elders. They fished, farmed, cleared the jungle, engaged in logging. The houses floated on the river sometimes. The noticeably absent men, may have been in the military, employed elsewhere, working on the rubber plantations, or possibly in re-education camps.Cambodian refugees, blended in with the general population, and avoided speaking, as to not betray where they were from. Conversation as we know it in our society, was non-existent in that part of Vietnamese culture. The story appeared to be disjointed, it was hard to follow: Barry only allowed the perceptions and observations of these villagers and that of the main character Rabbit. Rabbit, an unknown woman seer, had visions, impressions, and heard the voices of the dead, which appeared to her at random.(From the book)... "Rabbit's head suddenly filled with a silvery light.. Someone had died right there in the pilothouse. It had happened recently. And now someone was trying to talk to her, a spirit desperate to be heard. She closed her eyes. Please, the voice said. Take whatever you want, then the sound of a fishing knife...."(From the book)... "Among the Christians forgiveness is everything... In the Eastern cosmology the Lady will come to you and bathe your wounds and listen to your suffering, but she will absolve you of nothing. Absolution comes in the next life if you live within the path."The writing was really beautiful, and the lyrical descriptions of the land and nature, the customs, culture of these invisible people, and even the senseless violence (sometimes leading to death) were breathtaking. It helps to have prior knowledge of the division of North and South Vietnam, the Japanese and French occupation, the arrival of the American military forces that attempted to prevent the spread of communism. Maps were included, dates and timelines would have been helpful as a reference point for this rare and unique novel and reading experience.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Epic & Poetic. A stunning tale of endurance and redemption By Laurence R. Bachmann Quon Barry has written nothing less then a small masterpiece. She Weeps Each Time You Are Born is an ageless and singular tale about the life of Rabbit, born in a grave to a mother already dead 3 days. Vietnam, her homeland, one vast graveyard. From the moment she comes into the world in 1972, Rabbit is connected to those forever underground. She traverses the lands the dead haunt and where the living are haunted. She is blessed or cursed (depending upon one's point of view) with a preternatural connection to souls and to animals.The author's narrative is tidal in nature, with a Buddhist emphasis upon existence's circularity and impermanence. Time and life ebb and flow. Vietnam seems the cusp between The Physical World and The Spirit World as we move back and forth between French Indochina, the American war years and present day reunified Vietnam. The country and its people punished regardless of whom its master might be. Brief interludes of happiness like her parents' and her own for a Russian named Levka are transitory and evanescent.In the genre of magic realism, the author shifts seamlessly from the quotidian to the eternal and makes the impossible utterly believable. If Vietnam is the borderland between life and death, the physical and the spirit, then Rabbit is a sort of medium and docent. A Vietnamese Charon ferrying spirits across to the next existence but keeping their lives memory alive inside her. She is just one more orphan displaced by war and so much more. The quote below describes Rabbit aged three when told to say goodbye to her dying grandmother: "Rabbit rubbed her ears. The world went black like the moment before a curtain lifts. Gingerly she put her tiny hands on her grandmother's face.Through the fabric of the old woman's shirt she brushed the spot where Ba's scar gleamed next to her heart. A dog barked in the distance and then a flash and then everything. Ba's life spooling into her granddaughter in the span of a human kiss."Later she speaks her first words: her grandmother isn't dead. I believed her. Later you are told how the grandmother came to have the scar above her heart--it will make yours ache. It is one of many moments that plumb the depths of the reader's compassion. The ordinary people, anonymous combatants and defenseless bystanders in war are ennobled throughout this startling work. She illumines the unknown, introducing us to people we've never met but with whom we become intimately connected.It occurred to me midway that Rabbit is the author herself. Later it seemed more likely she is the tourist coming to Vietnam to uncover her own story. Regardless, Barry is proof positive a writer, a story teller embraces the vital task of telling painful and terrible tales. They do by suffusing themselves to imagine and summon those people's suffering of others. Perhaps Barry had no such notion when she began this book but she has accomplished the feat all the same. This is fiction at its finest telling stories that are individual and universal about a person and a people. A powerful and important book.
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