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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 Americ

Who reads Swimming Back to Trout River : A Novel?

Author

Linda Rui Feng

Publisher

New York: Simon & Schuster

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982129415

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (155 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14