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 the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin
contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal
coma. He wakes a week later to learn that his younger sister, Ruby,
was infected too. She did not survive. Routine takes over for the
grieving family, with the siblings caring for one another as they
befriend the neighbouring children and explore the surrounding
woods, while distance grows between the parents as each deals with
the loss alone. When the father, increasingly guilt-ridden after
Ruby's death, is sued over an improperly installed water well that
gravely harms a little boy, the chaos that follows unearths what
really happened to Ruby. With flowing prose that evokes the
terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Chia-Chia Lin explores
the fallout from the loss of a child and a family's anguish playing
out 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 myth of the American dream for a harsher, but
ultimately profound, reality. 'Graceful and precise' TIME 'A
breathtaking novel, full of characters as strong and as wild as the
Alaskan landscape they inhabit . . . Chia-Chia Lin is a remarkable
writer' Yaa Gyasi
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