"But sometimes I felt uneasy. What were we doing there? The feeling persisted through my life, no matter where I went." In her debut novel Chia-Chia Lin tells the story of an Asian-American family with roots in Taiwan. The parents live with their four children outside Anchorage, Alaska in the 1980s. The youngest girl in the family, Ruby, dies and the grief about this terrible loss is one of the main themes of this amazing, slowly paced novel. But it is also about trying to find a place to call home, about the relationships of the siblings Pei-Pei, Natty and the narrator who is a ten year old boy in that formative year the novel is situated in. Chia-Chia Lin shows how we are being shaped as the humans we are when we are young. "The Unpassing" is a great start and reading the acknowledgements, I see yet another author who has emerged from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She thanks Jamel Brinkley and Garth Greenwell who both have contributed with nice blurbs to this book that has been published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. #alaska #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #farrarstraussgiroux #chiachialin #theunpassing #grief #rainierbooks #bookish #debutnovel #asianamerican #taiwan (at Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_oI-yJgpyx/?igshid=1bf9wg8544xg2
