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Spanning nearly three decades and moving back and forth between Communist China and the United States, Linda Rui Feng’s debut novel, Swimming Back to Trout River (Simon & Schuster, 2021), follows a family fractured by physical and emotional distance. 

This year's edition of the Giller Book Club will feature authors on the 2021 longlist in conversation with notable writers, critics, past jury members and academics.

Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year.

As the weather gets cooler, warm up with one of these great Canadian books.

Situation, and we still have, at last check, about 7,500 migrants underneath this border bridge in del rio, texas. that remains closed for the time being. all traffic being diverted to eagle pass, about 60 miles south of us here. so authorities can get a better handle on whats become just an incredibly heartbreaking scene here. we know that there are men, women, and children underneath that bridge, some of whom have had trouble finding enough food and water to last, despite handouts from agents ...

A little over halfway through Swimming Back to Trout River, readers encounter a chapter titled “The Improviser’s Guide to Untranslatable Words” in which they are introduced to several Chinese metaphysical terms. The first, yuanfen, is a subtler counterpart to the concept of fate. Rather than certain actions or outcomes being predestined and set in stone, yuanfen more loosely and fluidly binds people and events together in a meaningful coincidence, perhaps only for a fleeting period of ti...

Alexis Burling April 25, 2021Updated: April 25, 2021, 8:06 pm Countless generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders have immigrated to America, enriched its culture and history, and helped make the country what it is today. Their stories are invaluable. In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, here are three promising debuts from Asian American writers, coming out in May. ‘Swimming Back to Trout River’ By Linda Rui Feng “Swimming Back to Trout River” by Lind...

A massive rally in miami, florida as more than 75,000 people are expected to gather for trayvon martin. the 17 year olds parents will also be there. this comes one day after hundreds of demonstrators marched with reverend al sharpton and jesse jackson in sanford, florida right where he was killed. and he was allegedly shot by george zimmerman who claims he did it in self-defense. he has not been arrested. >> alisyn: in florida, the families of two young scuba divers can breathe a sigh of relief....

steven moore and robert reich, labor secretary during the clinton administration. currently hes a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and author of "aftershock, the next economy in americas future" now out in paper back. ali, what happened today? >> reporter: we had a situation where its not just fear we were talking about. this was actual fact. we started this morning with slow bad markets out of europe. then before the markets opened we got this rep...

central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week weve been talking about rick perry saying it would be treasonous for the fed to get involved. while his comments may have been misinformed it represents a view in america that fed should do no more work in stimulating this economy. so now we have investors saying we need more investment. you got the morgan stanley saying we do. and youve got a lot of people in america saying dont do it. ...