In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska.
The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together.
When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma.
He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected, too.
She did not survive.
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