Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel

By: Linda Rui Feng Fiction Paperback Simon & Schuster 272 Pages ISBN:9781982129415 This book it part of our “Books for Good” program which donates 10% of this purchase to charity. It may have slight shelf wear and will have a discreet marking on the edge of the pages. Learn more about the “Books for Good” program here. 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 ho