The Big U Format:Trade Paperback Liyen ascends a precarious throne

Liyen ascends a precarious throne when her grandfather dies

Lucy must navigate a chaotic new reality in a gripping coming-of-age journey she never asked for

regarding them as wardens and himself as a prisoner

and can’t

on the trail of her wayward daughter Joanna

The Big U Format:Trade Paperback Liyen ascends a precarious throneThe New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back to school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.