Our first book show of the year is a first-time novelist, Karissa Chen.  Her new book Homecoming is a novel a portrait in longing, an epoch love story between two characters torn apart by political unrest at the time of the Communist Revolution in China.  It’s ambitious, it’s beautiful and it’s one of the best historical portrayals of China’s complex histories we have ever read.  Join us!

Books mentioned in this week's episode:

Homecoming by Karissa Chen

Written on the Water by Eileen Chang

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by DerekWalcott

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