Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, he promises to come home. When he attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, this novel is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.
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