Homeseeking

An epic tale of one couple spanning decades as world events pull them together and apart

By: Karissa Chen

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Hardcover | 13 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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512 Pages

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24.2 x 16.4 x 4.1

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**A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK**

''A layered, beautifully written, and deeply moving novel. Karissa Chen masterfully blends love, music, history, and heartbreak to create a sweeping tale that spans decades and continents''
Abi Dare

''[Homeseeking] weaves expertly between present and past, telling the story of childhood sweethearts who meet again late in life and are torn between looking back and moving on''
Celeste Ng

''Wonderfully cinematic, gorgeously orchestrated . . . like any tried-and-true epic (think Pachinko or The Joy Luck Club) . . . Homeseeking is just a genuine pleasure to read''
San Francisco Chronicle

''As I tearfully turned the last page of Homeseeking, I knew that it had earned a place on my top shelf . . . unforgettable''
Washington Post

''One of the best debut novels of this century''
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Suchi first sees Haiwen in their Shanghai neighbourhood when she is seven years old, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossoms into love, but when Haiwen secretly enlists in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, Suchi is left with just his violin and a note: Forgive Me.

Sixty years later, recently widowed Haiwen spots Suchi at a grocery store in Los Angeles. It feels to Haiwen like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. In the twilight of their lives, can they reclaim their past and the love they lost?

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history, telling Haiwen''s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi''s from her childhood to the present, meeting at the crucible of their lives. From Shanghai to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States, neither loses sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

''A love story in more ways than one, Homeseeking is a beautiful, nuanced look at Chinese history, family, young love, and the wisdom of age''
Vanessa Chan

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Sweeping, epic, yet deeply intimate, Homeseeking traces a pair of first loves and the gossamer thread that binds them across six decades and four nations as the world splits them apart, again and again . . . Spellbinding.

An absolute stunner of a debut. Chen nimbly tackles too often overlooked history in an exploration of surviving the trauma of war and loss of home.

Homeseeking is a perfect love song, beautiful and poignant and tender and sad . . . A must read.

A kaleidoscopic yet intimate view of the Chinese diaspora, Homeseeking explores how identities flex and transform during war - and which fundamental parts of us remain the same no matter where we find ourselves.

A love story in more ways than one, Homeseeking is a beautiful, nuanced look at Chinese history, family, young love, and the wisdom of age. As Suchi and Haiwen do their best to survive their lives, we follow them across the circumstances and choices that continually separate them, and bring them back together - even as their worlds keep changing. By the end I was in tears. Remarkable.

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