No Place Like Home, Linh S. Nguyen
No Place Like Home, Linh S. Nguyen
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No Place Like Home

Author: Linh S. Nguyen

Narrator: VyVy Nguyen

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2023


Synopsis

For fans of Inkheart and The Land of Stories, a sweeping, timeless middle grade fantasy about reclaiming and redefining home

Lan is caught between two countries, and neither one feels quite like home.

A recent immigrant to Canada from Việt Nam, Lan is lonely in the basement apartment she shares with her dad. Her mom and little brother are still in Việt Nam, and she misses them so much. Her books are the only things that bring her comfort.

No one is more surprised than Lan when a mysterious wind whisks her right into the pages of her latest fantasy read—and more shocking still is the fact that she summoned the winds herself! Plunged into the magical world of Silva, Lan learns she is a budding witch with the power to help Annabelle and Marlow, the very characters she’d just been reading about, save their home.

As Lan faces off against tree guardians, moving corn mazes, heart-eaters, and thoughtless kings, she finds that Silva is not so different from Toronto: new homes can be messy, wherever they are. Now, torn between several places at once, Lan confronts an important question: how do you redefine a lost home?
 

About Linh S. Nguyen

Linh S. Nguyen is a Vietnamese immigrant to Canada who straddles many intersecting worlds. Her stories revolve around home, liminality and living between cultures. She graduated from the University of Toronto as an English major and went on to pursue her master’s in Arts, Creativity and Education at the University of Cambridge. She loves to ride horses, swim in the ocean and design creative, community-engaged programming to foster opportunities for under-represented artists.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linh on September 14, 2022

Writing the first draft of this book for NaNoWriMo 2018 was the greatest act of faith. Time and hope kept my debut alive years before I had any guarantee that someone else would read it. In many ways, it is dedicated to those who subsist off dreams and Longing: forces powerful enough to tears open r......more

Goodreads review by Julie on September 27, 2022

"Once upon a time in Silva, the land of lost and found, a powerful king named his price of admission." In No Place Like Home, we follow Lan, an intrepid eleven year old girl eager for her adventure to begin. Having recently moved to Canada, Lan escapes into books to forget her disappointments in her......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on March 15, 2023

This book - where to begin? Linh is an incredibly talented author and her kind heart and brave soul shine through the story. It’s a beautifully written tale that takes you on an adventure and has you cheering for the main characters the whole time. If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fit in or know w......more

Goodreads review by New Kid on the Book Reviews on March 31, 2023

No Place Like Home whisks a lonely immigrant teenager into the enchanted world of Silva, where she must undertake a dangerous magical quest and find her way “home” 🌻 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½ I love the premise of No Place Like Home: a girl wanting to be part of a fantasy story suddenly finds herself drawn into on......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on November 05, 2023

Wow. This book was a beautiful exploration of what is meant by ‘home’, through the perspective of a Vietnamese child - Lan - who finds herself displaced in Toronto and, later, in the magical world of Silva. It explores ideas of immigration, family, liminality, friendship, agency, and desire which in......more