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Suchi knew now that home wasn’t a place. It wasn’t moments that could be pinned down. It was people. People who shared the same ghosts as you, saw you, loved you. When those people were far flung. Your home was too. And when those people were gone home lived on inside you.

She wanted to feel her mother’s hand against her face. And tell her he returned.

Suchi thought about the memories Haiwen cherished. The ones he’d spent so long golfing on to. So long examining. She never imagined as she tried to erase her past, there’d been someone out there who felt she was worth remembering.

Suchi spent her life not looking backward , only focused on surviving what was in front of her, pressing ahead day by day. For many years she’d told herself this was courage, but now the decades had passed and she found that this whole time she’d only been running away.

What sort of strength does a man’slber for home, for family, bestow Jon non. Enough they he might fight through sickness, through injury, through thousands of meters of sea?

Talking about his friend Li Tsin who jumped in the water and couldn’t swim. Haiwen recognized the fury and desperation that drove Li Tsin to jump into the sea. Not a death wish, exactly, though Haiwen, admittedly sometimes thought about that too. But there were moments when on the edge of despair and hope he believed the longing that pumped through was powerful to transport him home.

128. I like the book. It is tough to follow along with all of the names but I think I have it now.

Haiwen became Howard. Married to Linyee. - died in second chapter.
Yiping- daughter

Zhang family-Suchi, Sulan(older sister), Li’oe(father), Sueu’in(mom)

Siau Zi- boarder and employee to Zhang family

Yizhen-Sulans best friend

Wang family - Yuping and Chongyi(married) , Haiwen(son) , Haijun(younger daughter/sister)
Haiming(eldest son) married to Ellen

Yu yasoh(the barber), Lau Die(a client)
Zia yasoh-runs a restaurant,
Mo ayi-neighborhood
Loh konkon and Zen konkon- both men??