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Homeseeking

by Karissa Chen
 Literary Fiction: A coming-of-age story that's emotional, engaging, and written in a simple, straightforward style. It's also a beautiful love story that explores Chinese and Taiwanese history and culture, the Chinese Civil War, and many themes, including family, duty, and love.-Homeseeking By Karissa Chen  #historical-Fiction #reading #chinesecivilwar #chinese-history #taiwanese-history

About The Author


Karissa Chen is a Fulbright fellow, Kundiman Fiction fellow, and a VONA/Voices fellow whose fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, Longreads, PEN America, Catapult, Gulf Coast, and Guernica, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as multiple writing residencies including at Millay Arts, where she was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. She was formerly a senior fiction editor at The Rumpus and currently serves as the editor-in-chief at Hyphen magazine. She received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawren

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