One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

"A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope." -- Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother

There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies -- everything in between is speculation.

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight.

In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers immigrate to the UK, living first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality. Anh works in a factory to pay the bills. Minh loiters about with fellow high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt, unmoored by their parents' absence. And with every choice, their paths diverge further, until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together.

Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart these siblings' fates, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.

• We started tracking this book on June 27, 2022.
• This book was $13.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 8 times in the past 1,316 days.
• The current price of this book is $1.99 last checked one hour ago.
• The lowest price to date was $1.99 last reached on February 1, 2026.
• This book has been $1.99 3 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $13.99 last reached on July 17, 2023.
• This book has been $13.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionBritish & Irish

• Publication Date: March 21, 2023
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 223 Pages
• File Size: 19 KB