Agent: Katelyn Detweiler, Jill Grinberg Literary. Tran smartly weaves Vietnamese culture and real horrors of French imperialism to deliver an eerie tale overflowing with deeply unsettling atmosphere.

As Jade endeavors to protect her family and uncover Nhà Hoa’s secrets, she struggles to hide her growing feelings for Florence from Ba, whom she believes will rescind his offer of tuition help if he learns she’s bisexual. She Is a Haunting Trang Thanh Tran 18.99 17.66 Jade Nguyen visits Vietnam to see her father and help him restore a French colonial home. When attempting to persuade her family to leave doesn’t work, Jade enlists Florence, the niece of Ba’s business partner, to set up a fake haunting to drive them out.

28, 2023 A French colonial house in Vietnam threatens to devour its modern-day occupants. READ REVIEW 8 SHE IS A HAUNTING by Trang Thanh Tran RELEASE DATE: Feb. There, Jade experiences sleep paralysis and is plagued by nightmares featuring the Vietnamese wife of the white colonist who originally owned Nhà Hoa. Both the ghosts and the humans in this richly layered work are alluring and deadly. In Vietnam, the sisters stay with Ba in an old French colonial house called Nhà Hoa, which he has been renovating with plans to open a bed-and-breakfast. She Is a Haunting Trang Thanh Tran 18.99 17.66 Jade Nguyen visits Vietnam to see her father and help him restore a French colonial home. Though she’s initially opposed to the trip, she agrees to go after Ba promises to pay her university tuition. Jade and Ba haven’t been close since he left their family four years prior. Trang Thanh Tran shares their inspirations behind the New York Times bestseller She Is a Haunting, the importance of highlighting Vietnamese culture and a tease of what stories we can expect next. In Tran’s hair-raising supernatural horror debut, Vietnamese American 17-year-old Jade Nguyen travels to Vietnam with her younger sister Lily to visit their father, Ba.

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran