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Babylon, South Dakota : a novel Cover Image Book

Babylon, South Dakota : a novel

Lin, Tom 1996- (author.).

Summary: "When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative, all they have are the possessions on their back, some hidden gold, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long, harsh winter, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock, and soon after, a daughter, Mara. But when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu's farmland and begin building a missile silo, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury, and the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America's nuclear deterrent invulnerable, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire. In the years and generations that follow, increasingly impacted by the silo and its residue, the Hsius experience strange, wondrous, and tragic events on their farm"--

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  • ISBN: 9780316576277
  • ISBN: 0316576271
  • Physical Description: print
    325 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2026]

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Subject:
Asian Americans Fiction
Chinese Americans Fiction
Human-animal communication Fiction
Families Fiction
Farms Fiction
South Dakota Fiction
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 30 of 52 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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