The Unpassing

Chia-Chia Lin

Original title: Unpassing

earliest edition we have, 2019 Picador, 2020 paperback 288 pages

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 unp...

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Editions we hold

Unpassing edition · 2020 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 288 pages · 9780349013466
The Unpassing paperback · 2020 · Picador · 288 pages · 9781250619457
Unpassing edition · 2020 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 288 pages · 9780349013473
Unpassing edition · 2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 288 pages · 9780349013459
Unpassing edition · 2019 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 288 pages · 9780374719456
The Unpassing hardcover · 2019 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 288 pages · 9780374279363

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