Book Title: Unpassing /T**
ISBN: 9780349013459
By Author(s):CHIA-CHIA LIN
By Publisher:LITTLE BROWN
Format:TPB
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.