Where Waters Meet

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’ s secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow.There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller’ s mother, Rain, didn’t live with her.

Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix’s life.

Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain’s unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation.Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother’ s suitcase―a memory box Rain had brought from home.

Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative bottle holding a crystallized powder.

Her auntie Mei tells her these missing pieces of her mother’ s early life can only be explained when they meet, and so, clutching her mother’s ashes, Phoenix boards a plane for China.

What at first seems like a daughter’ s quest to uncover a mother’ s secrets becomes a startling journey of self- discovery.