The Unpassing
$28.15
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2020
Summary
A major US debut novel in 2019
Shortlisted for the Centre for Fiction First Novel Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In Chia-Chia Lin’s piercing 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 contractor, while the loving, strong-willed, unpredictably emotional mother holds th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349013473 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349013470 |
| Author: | Chia-Chia Lin |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 124mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
In this spare, deeply felt debut novel, Lin resists received wisdom about the American Dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home
Like the landscape it inhabits, this brilliant novel is composed of equal parts mystery, menace, and ravishment. It’s difficult to think of another recent book in which emotion mounts so steadily and inexorably, nearly imperceptibly, until the last pages arrive with almost unbearable force. Chia-Chia Lin is among the best new writers I’ve read in years
The Unpassing is a breathtaking novel, full of characters as strong and as wild as the Alaskan landscape they inhabit. Sentence after gorgeous sentence, I was pulled into their eery and beautiful world. Chia-Chia Lin is a remarkable writerA singularly vast and captivating novel, beautifully written in free-flowing prose that quietly disarms with its intermittent moments of poetic idiosyncrasy. But what makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s myth-making about itself, which can just as easily unmake as it can uplift - New York Times Book ReviewGraceful and precise - TIMEThe Unpassing is a searing, open wound of a book, marvelously alive and, quite simply, remarkable … This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any otherChia-Chia Lin
Chia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing. She graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received the Henfield Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, New York Times and more. She currently lives in Northern California.
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