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Well, welcome, boys and girls. Good to have you back with us. This is the bookcase with Kate and Charlie,

and we got a good book for you. But before we get to that, Kate, why don't you say hi?

Hello, boys and girls and cats and kittens and dogs and puppies and I don't know,

whoever else might be listening. It's good to be here, 2025. This is our first book of the new year, and we have a good one for you. I hope that you're willing to let us

recommend a book that's a little bit of an adventure. It's called Home Seeking. It's by

Carissa Chen, and it was a book that had me right from the introduction. So I loved it, and I was really excited to talk to her about this book.

Well, there's a lot of themes in this book, and we'll run some of them down in a minute. But basically, it's about two characters. And I right away got fascinated by the two characters about the way they were meeting, about their, you see them at the beginning when

they're very young. And I thought, I really liked these two. There are books where you find

characters that you really get into. Just Richard Osmond last week when we were talking about

what makes a good book, character, character, character, he said. But this has got character

and plot. And it is a unconventional plot that you might think

potentially could be confusing. And yet the writer, Carissa Chen, pulls it off perfectly, and you

are never confused about where you are and what's going on. No, you're right. It's a story as

old as time. It's a love story that goes decades and decades and decades.

And yet it's told over the political unrest of China from the 1940s.

It goes to about 2008, doesn't it? 2010.

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