Download or read book When the Tamarind Tree Blooms written by Elaine Russell and published by Belles Histoires. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geneviève 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 two dissonant societies. Where does she fit in?