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03050aam a22003855a 4500 001 3E10497A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230117s2023 xxu es 000 1 eng d 020 $a 080215963X 020 $a 9780802159632 028 42 $a MWT15656296 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Yu, An, $d 1992- $e author. 245 10 $a Ghost music : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c An Yu. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Grove Atlantic, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musicianFor three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can't escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom.When a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law's province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles. When a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms, Song Yan's world begins to tilt further into the surreal. Summoned to an uncanny, seemingly ageless house hidden in a hutong that sits in the middle of the congested city, she finds Bai Yu, a once world-famous pianist who disappeared ten years ago.A gorgeous and atmospheric novel of art and expression, grief and survival, memory and self-discovery, Ghost Music animates contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a lonely yet hopeful young woman and gives vivid color and texture to the promise of new beginnings. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Women pianists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Missing persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mushrooms $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Musicians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15654796?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9780802159632_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206011800.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3E10497A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search