The Unpassing (A Novel)

Awarded the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize. Also a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2019 by TIME, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and Esquire. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

"A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself." --Brian Haman, The New York Times Book Review

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About

Chia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG 2019), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's’ Choice and won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize. She graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, and more. She currently lives in Northern California.