The Other Side of Far, (Paperback)

<p>She counted to two hundred and eleven. Then she stood up. She has been standing ever since.</p><p>Jonny Tan has survived things that should have unmade him. A childhood sorting trash before dawn in Pampanga. A youth stolen by one wrong calculation. Twenty-three years building other people's cities in Kuwait. A war that took everything - his wife, his daughter, every dollar he had saved. And then, in San Diego at sixty-two, something quieter and harder: no forward motion. Only a cross from his mother's hand in his shirt pocket. Only the next thing, which he cannot yet see.</p><p>Tess Reyes has been sufficient since the morning in March 1976 when she was seven years old, sat on a mat, counted to two hundred and eleven, and stood up. She has built a life of such precise structural integrity that it requires nothing external to hold its shape. She is very good at it. She has been practicing for thirty years.</p><p>When a letter crosses thirty-seven years of silence, what it delivers is not a reunion. It is something rarer and more costly: a father and daughter discovering they have been speaking the same language, in the same direction, without knowing there was someone on the other end of it.</p><p><i>The Other Side of Far</i> is the prequel to <i>The Same Shore</i> - the story of how Tess Reyes became the woman who gives at three thresholds, who waits, who holds a hand at the edge of water. Read it and you will understand everything that composure cost. Return to Book One after. It will not be the same book.</p><p>For readers of Abby Jimenez, Celeste Ng, and Brit Bennett. A slow-burn, literary contemporary romance about a Filipino-American woman, her father, diaspora, family duty, and the love that arrives when you have finally become ready to receive it.</p><p>Book Two of The Same Shore Series. Read second. Then reread Book One.</p>

• The Other Side of Far, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798258047885
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-19
• Page Count: 202