{"product_id":"homeseeking-by-karissa-chen","title":"Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA single choice can define an entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaiwen 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.\u003cbr\u003eTo recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuchi 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: Forgive me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeseeking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once epic and intimate, Homeseeking is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46840653971593,"sku":"9780593712993","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/6087\/8729\/files\/9780593712993.jpg?v=1780587133","url":"https:\/\/www.nextchapterbookmobile.com\/products\/homeseeking-by-karissa-chen","provider":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}