{"product_id":"unpassing","title":"Unpassing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major US debut novel in 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Centre for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors'' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Chia-Chia Lin''s piercing debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Unpassing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 contractor, while the loving, strong-willed, unpredictably emotional mother holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes a week later to learn that his younger sister, Ruby, was infected too. She did not survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoutine takes over for the grieving family, with the siblings caring for one another as they befriend the neighbouring children and explore the surrounding woods, while distance grows between the parents as each deals with the loss alone. When the father, increasingly guilt-ridden after Ruby''s death, is sued over an improperly installed water well that gravely harms a little boy, the chaos that follows unearths what really happened to Ruby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Chia-Chia Lin explores the fallout from the loss of a child and a family''s anguish playing out in a place that doesn''t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful, \u003ci\u003eThe Unpassing\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the myth of the American dream for a harsher, but ultimately profound, reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A singularly vast and captivating novel, beautifully written in free-flowing prose that quietly disarms with its intermittent moments of poetic idiosyncrasy'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA striking debut by an unforgettable new voice'' \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315888988542,"sku":"NW9780349013473","price":9.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349013473.jpg?v=1778716788","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/unpassing","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}