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 ChenWritten on the Water by Eileen ChangDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine ThienLolita by Vladimir NabokovEverything Inside by Edwidge DanticatAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonGuess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratneyThe Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by DerekWalcott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Scott Turow Revisits Old Friend Rusty Sabitch

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