β Scribed by Chia-Chia Lin
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One of The New York Times Book Review 's 14 Books to Watch For in May, one of the Wall Street Journal Magazine 's 12 Best Books of Spring, one of TIME 's Best New Books to Read in May, and one of Cosmopolitan 's 14 Best Books Coming Out in May. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by the Los Angeles Times, Esquire , Southern Living, The Rumpus, The Millions, Literary Hub and Electric Literature
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...
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