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Book review: Homeseeking is a sweeping debut that charts the lives of two star-crossed lovers
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Homeseeking is Taiwanese-American author Karissa Chen's debut novel.
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By Karissa Chen
Fiction/GP Putnam’s Sons/Hardcover/512 pages/$37.52
In the pink April dawn, Wang Haiwen steps out the door of his family’s Shanghai shikumen and into a future he does not want. Before he leaves, he stops beneath the window of the girl he loves, trying to emblazon her into his memory.
