Water All Around
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Catalyst Books
Publishing:31st Dec '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 31st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Life for ten-year-old Linh was hard enough during the years post Vietnam war, but to be separated from her mother during an attempt to escape Vietnam in 1979 was unimaginable.
With no knowledge of her mother and baby sister's whereabouts, or even whether they are still alive, she and her father and brother make a second attempt to escape.
Landing in a refugee camp, Linh is troubled when her father’s wedding ring disappears and he becomes good friends with another female refugee. What if her father decides he wants a new wife? What if they never reunite with her mother? She must act fast. Her family is dwindling right before her eyes.
"Linh's first-person narration is the manuscript's clear strength. [The] oscillation between magical thinking and ... domestic detail is where the book's emotional intelligence really lives.” — Mphuthumi Ntabeni, author of The Wanderers
"Water All Around binds memory and yearning for a mother and a family, and hands them to you honestly. How many times can a heart break and recover? It is the longest love letter." — Hoangmai Pham, Author of Bridge from Saigon: A Memoir of Family and Mind“The Vietnamese people endured horrendous circumstances under the communist regime and risked their lives and the lives of their families to escape. Water All Around gives the reader insight into the hopeless circumstances these families faced risking their lives by fleeing in the middle of the night, crossing the ocean in rickety boats, battling starvation, illness, and displacement, all in an attempt to give their families a better life. It is a story of survival and resilience.” — Leah Stuhler, YA Book Chat Podcast
ISBN: 9781963511475
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
256 pages