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The unpassing / Chia-Chia Lin.

by Lin, Chia-Chia, 1981-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Taiwanese Americans -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- Fiction.

Children -- Death -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Alaska -- Fiction.

9780374279363 (hc.)

278 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

Domestic fiction.

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