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03333aam a22005418i 4500 001 B5344B6A76D611E99DDF21FB96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190515010013 008 181011t20192019nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018044059 020 $a 0374279365 020 $a 9780374279363 035 $a (OCoLC)1036205961 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ORX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CMI $d IK2 $d LNC $d OCLCO $d UAP $d YDX $d LIV $d OCLCO $d HQD $d FSP $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3612.I4966 $b U57 2019 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Lin, Chia-Chia, $d 1981- $e author. 245 14 $a The unpassing / $c Chia-Chia Lin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2019. 300 $a 278 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a 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 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 $a Taiwanese Americans $z Alaska $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Alaska $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 16 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409033204.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305015448.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022009.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013734.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053845.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061302.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529015338.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20200312044509.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217031702.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20191115100457.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905042733.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190726011825.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20190718010314.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20190716014224.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190525010506.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190515010112.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B5344B6A76D611E99DDF21FB96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search