"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering...

""Sometimes art is the only means by which we may find out the truth." One morning, a nine-story tower of excrement inexplicably appears in the capital of Dayang. The government performs a hasty cover-up, sparking protests that quickly explode in unrest. Mengliu, a young poet, and his girlfriend Qizi are swept up in the movement -- but in the brutal crackdown that follows, Qizi, along with thousands of other protestors, disappears. Years later, while...