A fictional memoir, Erased is about what happened to Katherine Lin, a wife, young mother, and promising Chinese scientist. Decades after Lin's disappearance in war-torn China, her daughter-in-law sets out on a trek to find out who she was, how she lived, and why her death was a mystery. Through family letters, unusual keepsakes, and discoveries in China, Lin comes alive. But this attempt to rescue Katherine Lin from oblivion uncovers some dangerous secrets long buried under the chaos of war, exile, and family treachery.