SHE IS A HAUNTING is an engrossing coming-of-age novel from Trang Thanh Tran. While visiting her estranged father in Vietnam as a guise to reconnect, Jade Nguyen's main objective is to get the money needed for her to attend college in the Fall. Her father has enlisted her help to build a website for a potential bed & breakfast as he renovates a French colonial house. However, the house has other ideas and will do everything in its power to keep Jade and her family from leaving. We speak to Tran about the dream that inspired this novel and creating a character that lives on the tightrope of duality while holding the secret of their sexuality and struggling with their cultural identity.