A "beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art,
culture, immigration...and love" (Jean Kwok, author of Searching
for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of
China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to
reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous
birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful
debuts I've read in years." How many times in life can we start
over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986, in a small
Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter
from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father
promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday.
But Junie's growing determination to stay put in the idyllic
countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her
family's shared future. Junie doesn't know that her parents, Momo
and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted
country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from
the tumultuous years of their youth during China's Cultural
Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical
ambitions and dreams for Junie's future in America, Cassia finally
begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago.
For Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate
attempt to reunite all three family members before Junie's
birthday--even if it means bringing painful family secrets to
light. Swimming Back to Trout River is a "symphony of a novel"
(BookPage) that weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia,
and Dawn--a talented violinist from Momo's past--while depicting
their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope,
compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of
immigrants. Feng's debut is "filled with tragedy yet touched with
life-affirming passion" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), and "Feng
weaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to
spare" (Booklist, starred review).
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