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SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER
A lyrical novel 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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
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.
What Junie doesn't know is 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 America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie's birthdayeven if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
In Swimming Back to Trout River, Linda Rui Feng elegantly weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawna talented violinist from Momo's pastwhile depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.
Born in Shanghai, LINDA RUI FENG has lived in San Francisco, New York, and Toronto. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia University, and is currently a professor of Chinese cultural history at the University of Toronto. She has been twice awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her fiction, and her prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead, Kenyon Review, Santa Monica Review, and Washington Square Review. This is her first novel. More about her writing and academic work can be found at lindaruifeng.com.
Linda speaks Mandarin and has some French and Japanese.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
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.
What Junie doesn't know is 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 America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie's birthdayeven if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
In Swimming Back to Trout River, Linda Rui Feng elegantly weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawna talented violinist from Momo's pastwhile depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.
Born in Shanghai, LINDA RUI FENG has lived in San Francisco, New York, and Toronto. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia University, and is currently a professor of Chinese cultural history at the University of Toronto. She has been twice awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her fiction, and her prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead, Kenyon Review, Santa Monica Review, and Washington Square Review. This is her first novel. More about her writing and academic work can be found at lindaruifeng.com.
Linda speaks Mandarin and has some French and Japanese.
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Published 2021-05-01 by Simon & Schuster |