A Map for the Missing

"I love fiction that takes me somewhere I’ve never been, and I’ve certainly never been to rural China in the 1970s. Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel has the building blocks of a page turner. There’s romance, family drama and societal upheaval. It centers on an adjunct professor in the U.S. who returns home to his family’s small village in China for the first time in years. But it’s more than just a great story. Tang’s deep research into the waning days of the Cultural Revolution allows this novel to rest on a foundation of a fascinating moment in Chinese history."

"I recently felt this way about the teenagers coming of age in 1970s China in A Map for the Missing, by Belinda Huijuan Tang."