Peach Blossom Spring

Peach Blossom Spring, written by New York Times bestselling author Georgia Hunter, is a "beautifully rendered" book about war, migration, and the need of sharing our memories. It follows three generations of a Chinese family as they look for a place to call home.

"Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time."

In 1938, Meilin is a young wife in China with a promising future. However, Meilin and her four-year-old son Renshu are forced to leave their house as the Japanese army approaches. They have to make their way across a devastated nation in search of safety, relying mostly on their cunning and a gorgeously designed hand scroll full of proverbs that are said to provide comfort and insight.

After some time, Renshu moved to America and took the name Henry Dao. He won't discuss his early years, even though his daughter is frantic to learn about her background. When the burden of his past threatens to bring his family down, how can he keep them safe in this new country? But if Lily can never know her family's history, how can she ever discover who she is?

Through the tale of a single family, Peach Blossom Spring offers a daring and poignant look at the history of contemporary China across countries and generations. It's about our past's influence, our optimism for a brighter future, and the nagging question of what it would mean to be home at last.