{"product_id":"homeseeking-a-gma-book-club-pick-hardcover","title":"Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarissa Chen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA single choice can define an entire life.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaiwen 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. \u003cbr\u003eTo recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuchi 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: \u003ci\u003eForgive me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomeseeking\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once epic and intimate, \u003ci\u003eHomeseeking \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarissa Chen\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fulbright fellow, Kundiman Fiction fellow, and a VONA\/Voices fellow whose fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, Longreads, PEN America, Catapult, Gulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as residences at Millay Arts, where she was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; the Ragdale Foundation; and Willapa Bay AiR. She was formerly a senior fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003eand currently serves as the editor-in-chief at \u003ci\u003eHyphen\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and splits her time between New Jersey and Taipei, Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.67 x 9.06 x 6.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378641530982,"sku":"9780593712993","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/FB6WyiuN5k9780593712993.webp?v=1768907464","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/homeseeking-a-gma-book-club-pick-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}