Feminist Book Club: November 2026
For November’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Homeseeking by Karissa Chen.
From the publisher:
An 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.
Haiwen 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.
To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.
Suchi 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.
🗓 Wednesday, November 18
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.
“As I tearfully turned the last page of Homeseeking, I knew that it had earned a place on my top shelf. For Chen has finally put into words the lifelong grief I have carried as an immigrant — grief for a childhood, a place, a home that no longer exists … [Home] can also live on inside a book. Just as I did, many readers are bound to find their home within the pages of Chen’s unforgettable debut.” —Washington Post
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