Ghost stories like these are told across Vietnam, where rural communities attach great significance to spiritual encounters. In this case, the man understood his wife’s grave had been disturbed in the ...
Forty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, or what the Vietnamese logically call the American War, Hanoi is where Washington wanted it back in 1975 — a free-market consumer society. Vietnam ...
In her hands, the decorated “Donut Dollies” hat Susan Buckley gently tossed back and forth appeared too heavy Monday for anyone to wear. But in her heart, Buckley said the memories of each decoration ...
"Build Your House Around My Body" is a ghost story, a sprawling novel that spans generations. It has some set pieces familiar from Hollywood horror movies and Brothers Grimm fairy tales, like an ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Violet Kupersmith about Build Your House Around My Body. It's the story of a woman's disappearance in Vietnam, populated by vengeful — but not always scary — ghosts.