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Elaine Russell
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When the Tamarind Tree Blooms
Genevieve (Vivi) Dubois, a half-Lao/half-French métisse, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage where she has lived for fourteen unhappy years. (The colonial government forced many native mothers in Indochina to give up their mixed race children after the French fathers abandoned them and returned to France. The system tried to keep the children’s origins hidden from them.) Vivi is determined to discover the story of her parents. She finds herself immersed in the deeply divided world of French colons and their Lao subjects, where both cultures look down on her mixed heritage. She struggles to find where she fits in. When two men, one Lao/one French, fall in love with her, she must faces the stark reality of her status in society. Steeped in the lush setting of Southeast Asia and the confines of the colonial period, the story unfolds over the summer and fall of 1931.
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