Available now from Simon & Schuster
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Nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize
Finalist for The 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the Aspen Words Literary Prize
“With lean prose and assured storytelling, this debut novel describes a family fractured by geography, ambition and the ripple effects of China’s tumultuous 20th-century history.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
(NEW AND NOTEWORTHY)

“Looking deeply into the ‘invisible mesh’ that links her characters’ lives, Feng weaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to spare.”
—BOOKLIST
(STARRED REVIEW)
“I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness.”
—WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry