Little Gods - Meng Jin
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
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 4th, 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 minds arrow of time., Seventeen years later, Su Lans daughter, Liya, brings her mothers ashes to China, along with the silences and contradictions of Su Lans life. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liyas 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, a
