They Bloom at Night
2025 novel by Trang Thanh Tran
They Bloom at Night is a young adult body horror novel by Vietnamese-American author Trang Thanh Tran. It was published by Bloomsbury Publishing by March 4, 2025. It centers a teenager whose coastal town is being overtaken by a sinister red algae bloom. An audiobook narrated by Nhi Do was released concurrently with the hardback and ebook editions.
Background
Mercy is inspired by Tran's childhood home in southern Louisiana, which had a large population of Vietnamese shrimpers. The encroaching algae is a reflection of climate change.
Synopsis
It has been twenty-one months since Hurricane Arlene hit the Gulf of Mexico, leaving the small coastal town of Mercy, Louisiana waterlogged, with red algae encroaching the town and mutating the wildlife. To avoid dangers in town, Vietnamese-American teenager Noon and her mother have been living in their shrimp trawler Wild Things on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, catching and selling mutated sea creatures and looking for traces of their missing brother and father, who Noon's mother believes have been reincarnated as sea creatures. When people start disappearing at an alarming rate, Jimmy Boudreaux, business criminal and legal owner of Wild Things, believes a monster is drowning the residents. He believes that providing the Monster to the authorities could revitalize the area and bring back people and money.
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