Little Gods
Author: Meng Jin
Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 288 pages
Published: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2021
One night can change a thousand futures.
On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter 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 onwards.
As Liya seeks to understand her family history, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repercussions reach up to the present moment.
Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional and of the tragic impact of history on individual lives.
Meng Jin's narrative prose has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshare, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and in Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.
Author: Meng Jin
Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 288 pages
Published: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2021
One night can change a thousand futures.
On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter 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 onwards.
As Liya seeks to understand her family history, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repercussions reach up to the present moment.
Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional and of the tragic impact of history on individual lives.
Meng Jin's narrative prose has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshare, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and in Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.