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"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, A Map for the Missing 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 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere"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.
About the Author
I am a writer from San Jose, California. My debut novel, A Map for the Missing, is forthcoming from Penguin Press in August of 2022. Most recently, I was a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Before that, I lived in Beijing and studied at Peking University for two years. In college I thought I would be an economist. My writing has received the Michener Copernicus Award and a Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship. Currently, I live in Los Angeles.