Little Gods A Novel

Meng Jin, Karen Huie, Francois Chau, Emily Woo Zeller

eAudio - 2020

"Expands the future of the immigrant novel." – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review "Spectacular and emotionally polyphonic...That Jin has managed to craft such an intimate, emotionally complex story is an awesome achievement. That she managed to do it in her debut novel, doubly so." – Omar El Akkad, BookPage (starred review) 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. Seventeen years later, Su Lan's daughter, Liya, brings her mother's ashes to China, along with the silences and contradictions of Su Lan&...#039;s life. 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... more