Little gods : a novel
(Large Print)
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2020.
ISBN
9781432878764, 143287876X
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Bridgeview Public Library - Stacks | LARGE PRINT FICTION JIN | On Shelf |
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | LARGE TYPE FICTION JIN, M. | On Shelf |
Glen Ellyn Public Library - Large Type | FIC JIN, MENG | On Shelf |
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2020.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781432878764, 143287876X
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"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self"--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jin, M. (2020). Little gods: a novel . Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jin, Meng, 1989-. 2020. Little Gods: A Novel. Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jin, Meng, 1989-. Little Gods: A Novel Thorndike Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jin, Meng. Little Gods: A Novel Thorndike Press, 2020.
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