A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing A Novel Shintaro Kago contemplating

contemplating

Planting the right trees in the right places

we live in tension with the secular calendar (mostly an inheritance from the Roman Empire) and the Christian liturgical calendar

exploring and <i>knowing</i> a tree

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing A Novel Shintaro Kago contemplatingBy: Alice Evelyn Yang Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2026 A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared