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 novels The Unpassing (FSG 2019) and the forthcoming Tether (FSG 2027). The Unpassing won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. 

Lin received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.