by
Kaitlin Solimine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
"A portrait of a soul,"—Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, finalist for the National Book Award
In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying...