Chia-Chia Lin

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The UnpassingHardcover, 7 May 2019

The Unpassing
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Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published
7 May 2019
ISBN-10
0374279365
ISBN-13
9780374279363

Description

Finalist for the 2019 NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of 2019 by TIME, The Washington Post, and Esquire. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin's novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America's mythmaking about itself. --The New York Times Book Review
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A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska**

In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected, too. She did not survive.

Routine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby's death, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges.

With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn't yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher, but ultimately more profound, reality.

Product Details

Author:
Chia-Chia Lin
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 May 2019
Dimensions:
21.08 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
0374279365
ISBN-13:
9780374279363
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
288
Weight:
399.16 gm

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