Swimming Back to Trout River

“With lean prose and assured storytelling, this debut novel describes a family fractured by geography, ambition and the ripple effects of China’s tumultuous 20th-century history.”

—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 
(NEW AND NOTEWORTHY)

“Looking deeply into the ‘invisible mesh’ that links her characters’ lives, Feng weaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to spare.”

—BOOKLIST 
(STARRED REVIEW)

“I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness.”

—WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry