Unlike the saccharine depictions of small-town life given in many stories, Boundless Horizons takes a quite different and more-realistic tack in narrating the tale of a young woman’s return to her home village in southeastern Taiwan. The protagonist, the daughter of a Japanese father and indigenous Taiwanese mother, feels the call of her childhood home in Taiwan tugging at her heartstrings. But after moving back from Japan, she finds herself inexplicably an outsider again and her sanguine expectations of hometown life at odds with twenty-first-century reality. The author’s own lived experience as an indigenous Amis adds persuasive depth to the unfolding story, making Boundless Horizons a rare lens into the complex issues raised at the crossroads of ethnic identities, generations, and expectations.