Author(s): Meng Jin

General fiction

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On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daugther Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night. 

As Liya seeks to untangle the mystery of her family, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering and unexpected love triangle whose repercussions are felt in the present moment.