Historical fiction/literary fiction/family saga/book club novel

The House Filler is told through the experiences of Golden Phoenix, a widow with bound feet who faces war, poverty, and political turmoil as she fights for survival, freedom, and happiness.
After the untimely death of her husband, Golden Phoenix is determined to keep her family together. However, poverty forces her to make the heart-wrenching decision to let her teenage twins join the Red Army. During the upheaval of the Japanese invasion of her hometown, she is separated from her two young girls, and her remaining son leaves to fight with the Nationalist army.
Golden Phoenix, along with her adopted son, remains to endure the horrors and the hardship of war. When the Civil War ends with the Communists in power in 1949, one of her twins, a member of the Communist Party, is wrongly accused of being a traitor and is sentenced to death. Golden Phoenix and her family must find a way to save her son’s life.

My next book, The Pinioned Bird, is complete, and I am currently seeking a publisher. It is a historical and literary fiction novel—a family saga and book club read—that follows the second generation of Tong's family in 20th-century China.