When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

by Elaine Russell

Genevi ve Dubois, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. She is determined to uncover the story of her parents and locate her missing twin brother. Stepping into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos, she finds neither French colons nor native Lao readily accept her mixed heritage. Even falling in love is fraught with the cultural restrictions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732499497
• ISBN13: 9781732499492
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Belles Histoires
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"