Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Okay I did the substack thing open.substack.com/pub/karissac...open.substack.comDiary of a Reverse Immigrant | Karissa | SubstackMissives from my life as a Taiwanese Chinese American living in Taiwan. Click to read Diary of a Reverse Immigrant, by Karissa, a Substack publication. Launched 15 minutes ago. 171
Reposted by Karissa ChenAriel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Columbia protests live updates: University calls in New York police after library takeover www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comColumbia protests live updates: University calls in New York police after library takeoverColumbia University called on New York police help as protesters chanting pro-Palestinian slogans took over the room of a library this evening. 012
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I made a playlist of all the musical pieces/songs mentioned in HOMESEEKING! In case you wanted a soundtrack. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...m.youtube.comHaiwen & Suchi's Playlist - YouTube 030
Reposted by Karissa ChenQueens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @karissachen.bsky.social, the author of "Homeseeking." Join us on April 24 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit... 252
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Omg episode 6 of When Life Gives You Tangerines: I have not cried that hard while watching anything in a long time. I cannot watch narratives like this now I have a child!! 000
Reposted by Karissa ChenQueens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers. Learn More about our April guests: Andrew Hui, @librarianjones.com, Melissa Mogollon, and @karissachen.bsky.social! queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea... #NationalLibraryWeek 1224
Reposted by Karissa ChenTurn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Episode 342E is here! Karissa Chen discusses HOMESEEKING, a tale of one couple across sixty years, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland. @karissachen.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/03/20/t... 001
Reposted by Karissa ChenBrian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Day 61 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @karissachen.bsky.social wants to meltdown mailchi.mp/b210cfb4bc0f... @writingco-lab.bsky.social 032
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I have not had more than 2 days in a row of health since I got back from the states Thanks, toddler! 😩 100
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Baby has norovirus and has been vomitting all day. Send prayers that I somehow miraculous avoid catching it even though he has vomited on me and then wanted to be held to sleep with his face breathing directly into mine 120
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Going through my baby's newborn stuff to sell / giveaway and 😭 why am I having a hard time letting go of these tiny clothes !! 030
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Was NOT prepared for how 💔 I'd feel to hear an older kid yell at my toddler, "You can't play with me!" Baby had been excitedly chasing a remote control car this kid and other older kids were playing w in the playground. The 6 yr old stopped baby and said "*You're* not allowed to chase it!" 350
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It is terrible when you have fixed your jetlag but your toddler has not 😩 Signed, a former night owl and mom of a toddler who has woken up for the last week at 2am, 3:30am, 4:30am, 5:30am and FINALLY TODAY at 6am 030
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025My 2 year old is learning his numbers and alphabet and every day he points to 0s and Os asking me "zero? O? Zero? O?" And while I explain that it's a zero when it's a number but an O when it's a letter, I realize this is the beginning of a lot of absurd language things I'm going to have to explain 3140
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Having listened to Baby Shark now hundreds and hundreds of times, I must say that the surprise POV change in the second to last verse is quite genius. We spend the entire song following the sharks, in their POV, meeting the whole family, going hunting with them... 1243
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Have arrived back in Taiwan and can feel my papery skin rehydrating, like dried fruit plopped into water 1180
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My child has his last day of temporary preschool today and his teachers cried when he left. He was like, meh. Then at 9 pm he wanted to go find his preschool teacher and started sobbing when we reminded him we had said goodbye already. The whole thing broke my heart 😭 2330
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I opened a new bottle of gorilla super glue to glue back together my kid's brand new vehicle toy he broke and it exploded over my hand and now I guess I have to live with hard scabs of glue over my fingers til my epidermis decides to shed itself 120
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: do brontosauruses no longer exist? Have the names of dinosaurs changed from the 1980s? signed, mom of a dinosaur obsessed toddler 440
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Finished my last tour event a couple days ago and now get to bask in the glory of running around in circles with my toddler while listening to Baby Shark at 1.5x speed. It's been a crazy, amazing couple of weeks and I am so grateful. But also happy to be home. 1110
Reposted by Karissa ChenBrian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Happy to see Taipei at Daybreak come up here in this list of this month's Asian American literature at Mochi Mag, along with @karissachen.bsky.social's Homecoming!mochimag.comWhat We Are Reading in January - Mochi MagazineDive into other worlds and characters with these January book releases, whether you’re in the mood for fantasy, murder, coming-of-age experiences, or stories of self-discovery. 172
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025My photos memories cruelly showing me how 4 years ago, I bought a bottle of champagne and toasted that fucker's departure from the WH and cried with relief. I can't fking believe he's back, like a fucking roach 0220
Reposted by Karissa Chenbrittianya.bsky.social @brittianya.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I just finished Homeseeking by @karissachen.bsky.social and it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. A very moving, beautiful novel. #BookSky 051
Reposted by Karissa ChenKenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The menace ends birthright citizenship by EO. Not likely to stand, but among other EOs today, he's attacking all BIPOC. #wongkimarkasamnews.comUpdate: Trump signs executive order ending birthright citizenship – AsAmNewsThe White House announced numerous executive orders this morning meant to close the border to undocumented immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. 0105
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The fact that TikTok is actively thanking Trump on their app now is all the reason I need to never use that app 1161
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Ahem I was on live television this morning (still trying to wrap my head around it). Yes that's me I. @goodmorningamerica.bsky.social ! abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...abcnews.go.comVideo Karissa Chen talks book, ‘Homeseeking’Author Karissa Chen joins “GMA” to discuss her debut novel and “GMA’s” January Book Club pick. 5475
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Every time I use an airport bathroom I think to myself why the hell the doors don't open outwards. Trying to maneuver luggage into those tiny stalls makes me feel like I'm moving furnituremedia.tenor.coma man is peeking out from behind a staircase with the words pivot written on itALT: a man is peeking out from behind a staircase with the words pivot written on it 140
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Me, a Chinese speaker, side eyeing the jump from TikTok to RedNote, Chinese name 小紅書 010
Reposted by Karissa ChenOcean City Free Public Library @ocfpl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Check out these new #fiction books on this #NewTitleTuesday. 📚 We have new books by @karissachen.bsky.social, #KateFagan, #JonathanEvison, #SarahAdams, #DanielleSteel, and #FionaDavis. Link below! 📎👇 oceancitylibrary.org #OCFPL #OceanCityLibrary #NJLibrary #OceanCityNJ #OCNJ 043
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025As I was leaving security, the woman who had checked my bag (bc my Japanese snacks somehow flagged the system) checked another bag and called for her supervisor, saying "Hey we have something here flagged as high alert" or maybe she said "high danger" and I was like 😳 and ran away 130
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I just read the Neil Gaiman article right before bed and....yiiiikkkeeesss that was way worse than I had even imagined 150
Reposted by Karissa ChenThe Rumpus @therumpus.net · 11/01/2025“What set this book apart is that I cared enough about it to really see it through.” @karissachen.bsky.social discusses the publication of her novel Homeseeking for The Rumpus original column The First Book. Read the full interview at buff.ly/40uBwnS 082
Reposted by Karissa ChenJon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Celebrating @karissachen.bsky.social and her book HOMESEEKING at @booksonthepark.bsky.social last night! 142
Reposted by Karissa ChenDebutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Our first podcast conversation of 2025 is with @karissachen.bsky.social, author of HOMESEEKING (@putnambooks.bsky.social)! Listen to her chat about exploring lost love in her sweeping historical debut book! 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/1qWu... 053
Reposted by Karissa ChenMeredith Talusan @1demerith.bsky.social · 08/01/2025HOMESEEKING is amazing and everyone needs to read it!!!! 051
Reposted by Karissa ChenR. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025& if you’re not already following these writers, you can find them here: @imaniperry.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social @scaachi.bsky.social @silviapark.bsky.social @lailalalami.com @erikatwurth.bsky.social @katiekitamura.bsky.social @thebestjasmine.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social 4191
Reposted by Karissa ChenDebutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 10/01/2025You can get these debut books RIGHT NOW at your favorite indie bookstore! Or check out Debutiful Dot Net to purchase and learn more about them! debutiful.net/2025/01/06/1... @karissachen.bsky.social @coletteshade.bsky.social @katefagan.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social 033
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I published a book! It is the January GMA book club pick! I am on tour! I am tired! I am grateful! I need caffeine! 5411
Reposted by Karissa ChenErika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Happy book birthday to @karissachen.bsky.social and HOMESEEKING. Karissa is the writing buddy (and friend) I've known the longest. I've seen HOMESEEKING from its early drafts. Friends, you'll love it. bookshop.org/p/books/home...bookshop.orgHomeseeking a book by Karissa ChenAn epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homela... 051
Reposted by Karissa ChenSamuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Huge fucking mazel tov to @karissachen.bsky.social on release day for HOMESEEKING! Go buy it!abcnews.go.com'Homeseeking' by Karissa Chen is our 'GMA' Book Club pick for JanuaryThe novel explores love, the Chinese diaspora, and the search for home. 031
Reposted by Karissa ChenMike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 07/01/2025Happy pub day to @karissachen.bsky.social! Here's a link to order her book, which I can't wait to read! bookshop.org/p/books/home...bookshop.orgHomeseeking a book by Karissa ChenAn epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homela... 021
Reposted by Karissa ChenChristine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Happy pub day, @karissachen.bsky.social! Karissa is a beautiful human who was there for me during a bleak time in my life and that talented heart has written an epic love story!!!! 062
Reposted by Karissa ChenEugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Ahhhhh!!!!! Congratulations & happy pub day to @karissachen.bsky.social, Jan’s @goodmorningamerica.bsky.social Book Club pick! So amazed by my brilliant bff! Her nationwide tour for HOMESEEKING kicks off tonight in NYC via Yu and Me Books at New Design High Seward Park Campus Library 350 Grand St.! 061
Reposted by Karissa ChenGreen Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Happy Pub Day to Homeseeking and congratulations to @karissachen.bsky.social on her debut novel being selected as the Good Morning America Book Club January pick! Chen and @vanessahua.bsky.social join us here on Friday. Details in the thread. www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...goodmorningamerica.com'Homeseeking' by Karissa Chen is our 'GMA' Book Club pick for JanuaryThe novel explores love, the Chinese diaspora, and the search for home. 154
Reposted by Karissa ChenPenina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Huge pub day congrats to Franklin Park Reading Series stars Adam Haslett, @karissachen.bsky.social, Irvin Weathersby Jr., and @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social! Join us at Franklin Park on Monday to see Irvin and Kevin in person! 022
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Sleepless bc tomorrow is my book launch. I need sleep! Why can't I sleep??? 090
Reposted by Karissa ChenJon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social · 03/01/2025My novel BIG CHIEF is one of Goodreads Hottest, yes, Hottest Debut Novels of 2025! Some serious names here including HOMESEEKING by @karissachen.bsky.social and THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER BY @jemmawei.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/blog/show/28...goodreads.comMeet the Hottest Debut Novels of 2025One of the annual delights of maintaining a serious reading habit is the thrill of discovery. Each year, a new group of first-time authors rele... 1103
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I can't believe I'm gonna be a published author in TWO DAYS! 3390
