Monkey Bridge
"When the Panama land bridge between North and South America formed three million years ago, plants and animals surged back and forth in an evolutionary cross-fertilization creating one of the world's richest and most fascinating environments. This is the story of Central America's role as an evolutionary link between continents"--Provided by publisher.
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Mai and her mother left Saigon for Virginia in 1975. Years later, Mai begins reading her mother's secret journal and reconstructing the grandfather they never saw again, and the war that took everyone apart.
Monkey Bridge was written by Lan Cao and published in 1997. Cao is a Vietnamese-American novelist who has also written The Lotus and the Storm. Monkey Bridge was her debut.
Monkey Bridge is fictional but informed by Lan Cao's own experience as a Vietnamese refugee who came to the United States as a child after the fall of Saigon. The historical and cultural details are deeply researched.
Monkey Bridge is 260 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Monkey Bridge takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Monkey Bridge is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Monkey Bridge is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
