Review: ‘Daughters of the New Year’ by E.M. Tran

In November, #ReadWithMC readers picked up E.M. Tran’s debut novel, Daughters of the New Year, a captivating story centered on the women of a multigenerational Vietnamese family. The first half of the novel follows Tran, Trieu, and Nhi, the daughters of Xuan Trung, a former beauty pageant queen and immigrant living in the U.S. Trung is obsessed with telling her daughters’ fortunes through the Vietnamese zodiac signs, but each of her daughters has diverged completely from Trung’s expectations. As the story progresses, readers travel back in time to see the lives of older generations of the Trung family and how… Read Full Article