Little gods: a novel
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On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. 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.
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Jin, M. (2020). Little gods: a novel. First edition. New York, NY, Custom House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jin, Meng, 1989-. 2020. Little Gods: A Novel. New York, NY, Custom House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jin, Meng, 1989-, Little Gods: A Novel. New York, NY, Custom House, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jin, Meng. Little Gods: A Novel. First edition. New York, NY, Custom House, 2020.
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