STRANGERS OF THE SAME ROOT

Four branches. Four passports. One family history fractured by time.In contemporary North America, the lives of four young women begin to intersect, gradually revealing a family history that reaches across generations and continents.Decades earlier, in 1949, three brothers and a cousin from a Guangdong Hakka family were scattered across Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. One remained with the key to an ancestral home. One carried the family genealogy across the Taiwan Strait. One pawned an old metal bracelet in Hong Kong. Another rebuilt the family name in Nanyang.Years later, fragments of that past begin to resurface through inherited objects, family letters, memories, and a broken genealogy.Moving between Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, and the United States, Strangers of the Same Root is a multigenerational literary saga about migration, identity, memory, inheritance, and belonging.It asks a quiet but enduring question: when history changes our names, our borders, and even the words we use for home, what remains of family?For readers drawn to literary family sagas, Asian diaspora fiction, and emotionally layered stories of identity, memory, and belonging.