The Unpassing
Jun 12, 2019
5 minutes
Chia-Chia Lin whose debut novel, The Unpassing, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May.
INTRODUCED BY Yaa Gyasi author of the novel
Homegoing
, published by Knopf in 2016.
n the day before the Challenger is set to launch, ten-year-old Gavin, the narrator of Chia-Chia Lin’s stunning debut, , falls ill and drifts out of consciousness. When he wakes up, a week has passed, the Challenger has exploded, and his sister Ruby has died from the very illness he just survived. Gavin, who once believed that “things that had been splintered could be intact again,” wakes up to a spl intered world. The novel is set in Alaska, a fitting frontier for this book about a family of Taiwanese immigrants who are staking their claim on a new country, grappling with grief, and trying
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