When the Lanterns Remember
A Novel of Language, Memory, and One Last SummerBy Nalee Vang
Length5h 29m
About this audiobook
All her life, the words her grandmother spoke felt like a door she could never quite open — a language of lanterns and lullabies she was always meant to inherit but never learned. The summer everything changes, she's sent to Hmong language camp, where a best friend's betrayal and a heart on the line force her to choose between the girl she's pretended to be and the one her grandmother always knew she was. A luminous coming-of-age novel about language, memory, belonging, and the love that remembers us even when the words are gone — for readers who carry their family's stories in a tongue they're still learning to speak.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Word My Mother Locked Behind Her Teeth
3Chapter 2 - The Smile That Knew My Secret
4Chapter 3 - The Stitch Where Somebody Changed the Truth
5Chapter 4 - The Voice I Couldn’t Borrow
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6Chapter 5 - The Hearth Where the Words Hid
7Chapter 6 - The Tongue I Bit Until It Bled
8Chapter 7 - The Price Tag That Spoke a Story
9Chapter 8 - The Ink My Mother Swore Didn’t Exist
10Chapter 9 - The Pact I Shouldn’t Have Believed
11Chapter 10 - The Three Minutes That Cost Me a Lie
12Chapter 11 - The Bed Where Half the World Vanished
13Chapter 12 - The Rule That Broke Its Own Keeper
14Chapter 13 - The Help That Had Teeth
15Chapter 14 - The Ink That Knew My Real Name
16Chapter 15 - The Thread That Held My Spine Straight
17Chapter 16 - The Stage Where I Was Supposed to Be Perfect
18Chapter 17 - The Exit That Finally Led Home
19Chapter 18 - The Moment She Called Me By My Real Name
20Chapter 19 - The Prize That Didn’t Fit Anymore
21Chapter 20 - The Festival Where All the Voices Climbed
22Chapter 21 - The Poem My Mother Spoke Like Rain
23Chapter 22 - The Classroom Where I Built Her a Door
24Epilogue
25About the Author
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