Little Gods National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (1995) At once an irresistible adventure

At once an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state

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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact

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he decides to hide the evidence and pursue the killer himself

Little Gods National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (1995) At once an irresistible adventureOn the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China to her, an