Where Waters Meet
Translated by Nicky Harman
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A daughter caring for her aging mother begins to uncover the dramatic history her mother has kept secret for decades — a life shaped by war, displacement, and choices made under impossible circumstances in mid-century China. As the mother's past surfaces, the daughter must reckon with a version of her mother she never knew existed. Zhang Ling writes the immigrant mother-daughter relationship with emotional precision, understanding that the distance between generations is often the distance between the country the mother left and the one the daughter was born into. The novel moves between past and present with the rhythm of a confession finally being spoken. A novel about the secret history every immigrant mother carries — and the daughter who finally asks to hear it.
