Homeseeking - Karissa Chen - Thorndike Press Large Print

''Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me. Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen's story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi's from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts''--

Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781420524192

Contributor: Karissa Chen

Call Number: PS3603.H44848

Dewey: 813.6

Category: Couples ; Geography ; Psychological aspects ; Asian Americans ; Identity (Psychology) ; Man-woman relationships ; China ; History ; 20th century ; Shanghai (China) ; Large type books ; Romance fiction ; Historical fiction ; Large print books ; Novels

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0070

Category: Ethnic Orientation | Asian

Publish Date: 05/28/2025