Miss Me Forever - by Eugene Cross (Paperback)

About the Book

"Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly damp and gray he wonders if he's landed on the underside of the world. He is sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee Camp Goldhap, Tulsi is technically a refugee from Bhutan, a land he's never set eyes on. Reunited with his grandfather, Tulsi struggles to navigate his new life, his new country, and a raw separation from his beloved sister, Susmita, the one person who truly tethers him to the world. Haunted by the uncertainty of her fate, Tulsi attempts to move on, forging relationships with the unfamiliar characters he encounters: a youth pastor's wife suffering a crisis of faith, a guarded transfer student with a mysterious past, a single mother with whom Tulsi glimpses a future brighter than he'd ever imagined. But the past will not rest, and Tulsi finds he must heal the wound of Susmita's loss and track down the sister he left behind"--

Book Synopsis

Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly
damp and gray he wonders if he's landed on the underside of the world. He is
sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee Camp
Goldhap, Tulsi is technically a refugee from Bhutan, a land he's never set eyes
on.

Reunited with his grandfather, Tulsi struggles to navigate
his new life, his new country, and a raw separation from his beloved sister,
Susmita, the one person who truly tethers him to the world.

Haunted by the uncertainty of her fate, Tulsi attempts to
move on, forging relationships with the unfamiliar characters he encounters: a
youth pastor's wife suffering a crisis of faith, a guarded transfer student
with a mysterious past, a single mother with whom Tulsi glimpses a future
brighter than he'd ever imagined. But the past will not rest, and Tulsi finds
he must heal the wound of Susmita's loss and track down the sister he left
behind.

Review Quotes

"Miss Me Forever is an elegy for
all exiled people yearning to find a home and place to belong. This is a
heartbreaking yet hopeful story of love, familial bonds, generational trauma,
and determination penned by a writer of rare grace and dignity. With this
novel, Eugene Cross has created a wholly unique perspective on the immigrant
experience, one with enough power and poignancy to ripple across oceans,
nations, and time itself."

-Alex Espinoza, author of Still Water
Saints and The Five Acts of Diego Leóoacute;n

"With Miss Me Forever, Cross fixes
a compassionate and unapologetic gaze upon Tulsi Gurung, "a refugee from a
place he has never seen." In America, where things are bigger than they are
elsewhere, particularly loss and heartache, Tulsi builds himself an emotional
safe house anchored by four immutable devotions: love for his grandfather,
search for his sister, mastery over his own story, and a new language in which
to state his case. The journey is both utterly moving and utterly compelling.
In a country made up of refugee stories, Tulsi's voyage into a future that can
contain and transcend his past stands out. An exceptional novel from one of our
best."

--Ru Freeman, author of A Disobedient Girl and Bon
Courage

"Miss
Me Forever is a coming-of-age story, a refugee story, a love story and
a family story, all wrapped up in honest, heart-felt writing that sheds an important
light on the realities of being an outsider in this country. A thoroughly
compelling novel filled with beautiful and effective subtleties, which is why
one might not realize, until the final page, the somewhat ontological questions
the story had raised, chiefly: what is "family" when you don't have any left?
And what makes you you when everything you had has been taken
away?"

--Nami
Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere