03701cam a2200757 4500 1848931270 TxAuBib 20250109120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593713006 0593713001 1025b3c3-242c-43b1-8f15-9c9dcc866642 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10648586 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chen, Karissa. Homeseeking [Libby]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025. family. relationships. literary fiction. War. immigrant. Historical. romance. book club. Fiction. novels. asian american. Saga. marriage. Chinese. love. love story. Asian. China. Historical Fiction. Drama. WWII. Historical Romance. romance book. Taiwan. Romance Novel. literature. fiction books. Hong Kong. book club recommendations. romance books. romance novels. romantic novels. books for women. asian fiction. books for mom. mom gifts. gifts for mom. historical fiction books. book club books. realistic fiction books. books fiction. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML:<b>An 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.</b><br /> <i>A single choice can define an entire life.</i><br /> 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.<br /> To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.<br /> 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: <i>Forgive me.</i><br /> <i>Homeseeking</i> 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.<br /> At once epic and intimate, <i>Homeseeking</i> is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-08 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1025b3c3-242c-43b1-8f15-9c9dcc866642&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)