NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
On a summer day in 2010, when Ying Qian returns to Beijing from America to visit her family, she receives information on how her father, a Chinese nuclear weapons expert, was killed during the Cultural Revolution 40 years before. The event forces her to walk down memory lane to the darkest period of recent Chinese history and compels her to search for information surrounding her father’s death. Through the process, she discovers truths that have been there all along.