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001			on1036205961
003			OCoLC
005			20190508094715.0
008			181011s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2018044059
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020			_a9780374279363 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0374279365 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1036205961
042			_apcc
092			_aLin, _bChia-Chi
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLin, Chia-Chia, _d1981- _eauthor. _9398166
245	1	4	_aThe unpassing / _cChia-Chia Lin.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1905
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2019.
300			_a278 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aTaiwanese Americans _zAlaska _vFiction. _9398167
650		0	_aImmigrants _vFiction. _951249
650		0	_aChildren _xDeath _vFiction. _956220
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction. _944611
651		0	_aAlaska _vFiction. _920152
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft _93574
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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