{"product_id":"map-for-the-missing-belinda-huijuan-tang-9780593300688","title":"A Map for the Missing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father--and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, \u003ci\u003eA Map for the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what's left behind can ever be retrieved, and whether it is possible to forgive the wounds we inevitably inflict on each other.\" --Celeste Ng, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An engrossing saga of a young mathematician caught between two countries, two cultures, two eras, and two loves. Set against the violent turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this powerful debut explores the wrenching impact of political ideologies on individual lives in a way that is resonant and timely.\" --\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Tale for the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, \u003ci\u003eA Map for the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTang Yitian has been living in America, estranged from his family, 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. When Yitian returns home and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider. So he seeks out a childhood friend: Tian Hanwen, who as a teenager was \"sent down\" from Shanghai to Yitian's village as part of China's rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university together. But after a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on a search for Yitian's father, all the while grappling with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, \u003ci\u003eA Map for the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50186079273153,"sku":"9780593300688","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780593300688.jpg?v=1778090393","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/map-for-the-missing-belinda-huijuan-tang-9780593300688","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}