Seekers of Deer Creek : A Novel

From the national bestselling author ofBanyan Moon,a captivating, evocative story of two estranged sisters on a quest to find a painting by aforgotten Vietnamese artist that holds the truth of their familys fractured past.

Aside from the fact they are sisters, Vivi and Calla Nguyn have little in common.

Vivi, the eldest, lives an orderly and predictable life. She works as an art conservator at a museum in Chicago, carefully preserving pieces of the past, all the while refusing to examine her own dark history.

Calla leads a much bolder, if occasionally reckless, existence. Shes an accomplished artist with a flair for the dramatic, charming and intriguing everyone she meets. Shes also a recovering addict, constantly causing Vivi to worry.

Months after the two fall out in the wake of their fathers death, Calla appears on the steps of the museum with a sketch and a letter she found in their fathers belongings. The sketch is an exact copy ofBlue Mirror, a striking painting by a Vietnamese painter named K.P. L. In the letter, L writes about a mysterious lost work of art. Calla is convinced it is meant for their family, and that it was their fathers deathbed wish for her and Vivi to find it together. Intrigued yet reluctant to follow her capricious sister, Vivi must decide whether shes willing to face or shut the door to the past.

From the ghostly Wisconsin woods to a glittering estate in the French countryside to a sprawling ancestral home teetering on the edge of a ravine in Vit Nam,The Seekers of Deer Creekis a story of sisters, art, and the irresistible gravity of the pasthow it endures across time and generations, always present even when buried.