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"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 Junie by her twelfth birthday. But Junies growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to upend her familys shared future. What Junie doesnt know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from each other in their adopted country, both holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during Chinas Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams of Junies future, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from her past. And what might this have to do with Dawn, a talented violinist from Momo's past looking for a sea change of her own? To fulfill his promise to Junie, Momo must pounce on one last chance to reunite his familyeven if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. In Swimming Back to Trout River, Linda Rui Feng elegantly weaves together four entangled stories, each with its own heartbreak and resilience, while tenderly revealing the hopes, compromiss, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants"-- Dust jacket. |
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Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781982129392
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1982129395
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