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Some of the topics they will discuss include: writing as the means to access and widen those subjects one is unfamiliar with, the spectrum of the diasporic experience as it relates to both language and time, and what it means to discover and trust one\u2019s writerly process.\r\n\r\nThere will be an audience Q&A after the in-conversation. Literati Bookstore will be on-site to facilitate a book signing following the conclusion of the event. 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While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie\u2019s future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. For Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three family members before Junie\u2019s birthday\u2014even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.\r\n\r\nSwimming Back to Trout River is a \u201csymphony of a novel\u201d (BookPage) that reveals the hopes, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants. It \u201cweaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to spare\u201d (Booklist, starred review).\r\n\r\nLinda Rui Feng, Ph.D, is both a practitioner and researcher of imaginative storytelling. At the University of Toronto, her work in Chinese cultural history takes her to narratives from the ninth century and, more recently, to the history of scent and aromatics. 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