Generator

In this first novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud, a woman's search for father, a former US engineer at international nuclear power facilities, provides the backdrop to this compelling personal journey that takes the reader not only into her emotional turmoil, but explores the story of nuclear power generation from its origins in the post-WWII era to the present. With richly descriptive vignettes of the dormant or abandoned sites she visits, from Taiwan to Wales to midwestern United States, the narrator reimagine her father's life on this emotional journey in search of her own identity and sense of belonging in the world.