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A massive dam rises, a million lives are thrown in turmoil...and a widower saves an abandoned baby girl from the Yangtze.
In the Lap of the Gods is a forthcoming novel set in China that resonates with the truth of our times. The world's largest dam rises up, leaving the poor without recourse as entire cities and villages go under water. The past is erased in the name of progress. Liu has lost all that is dear to him; his wife and unborn child have died, and his old town was flooded by the Three Gorges dam. In battling their own demons, Liu and Fang encounter the underbelly of China's rampant growth. This is a story of defiance, weaving together a poor man's struggle to survive in the modern world and a rich man's attempt to reclaim the past.
Acclaim for In the Lap of the Gods
~~ Top four finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship ~~
~~ Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards ~~
Publisher's Weekly says:
"This novel invokes the clash between the cultures of the old China and the new China for a rewarding story of paternal love surviving against formidable odds."
Readers & writers say:
"Very well written and skillfully told..."
~ Amanda Richards, Amazon top 50 reviewer
"These are questions that so many of us are asking ourselves about an entire world in which the pace of change seems to keep us perpetually off-balance..."
~ Sue Repko
"A voice that is both accessible and beautiful..."
~ Gina Davis
"The gripping opening scene, with a helpless child abandoned to rising water, had a powerful effect on me, making me care about the outcome and yearn for a savior. Who better to fulfill that role than Liu, a scavenger who ekes out a living among the abandoned villages?"
~ Greg Buford
"Richly written, this is the kind of story you can get lost in, and changes the way you view the world..."
~ Kim Wyatt
"Li Miao Lovett weaves a complicated tapestry of elements: the river gods provide a broken man with the chance to rediscover his heart..."
~ Robin Somers
"There is a certain tenderness in Liu; the fact that he doesn't want to wake the baby, that he's hesitating at the door of the baby broker..."
~ Mary Beth McClure
"The spectacle of deserted villages far as the eye can see receding underneath the unleased, raging currents of the Yangtze is the world that Li Miao Lovett describes with rich detail and subtle poignancy..."
~ Genny Lim
"Earthy, organic. Perhaps that sense is owing to the earnestness of the narrator's voice."
~ Lizette Wanzer
"Lyrical, mesmerizing, haunting, beautifully written book..."
~ Dawn Yun, founder, Writing Mamas Salon
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