A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother\'s secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselLing author of A Single Swallow .
It illuminates the resilience of humanity, the brutalities of life, the secrets we keep and those we share, and the driving forces it takes to survive..
Told across decades and continents, Zhang Ling\'s exquisite novel is a tale of extraordinary courage and survival.
What at first seems like a daughter\'s quest to uncover a mother\'s secrets becomes a startLing journey of self-discovery.
Her auntie Mei tells her these missing pieces of her mother\'s early life can only be explained when they meet, and so, clutching her mother\'s ashes, Phoenix boards a plane for China.
Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative bottle holding a crystallized powder.
StruggLing with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother\'s suitcase--a memory box Rain had brought from home.
Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain\'s unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation.
Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix\'s life.
There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller\'s mother, Rain, didn\'t live with her.
A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother\'s secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselLing author of A Single Swallow
