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Green Frog

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by Gina Chung
Jeena Yi
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ONE OF NPR'S 2024 "BOOKS WE LOVE"
From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival.
"The stories hit, each one, and land with such seeming perfection. Chung’s book sits next to my all-time favorite story collections by masters of the craft: Karen Russell, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, George Saunders, and Ted Chiang."—Morgan Talty, award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez
Equal parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister's death—and true to life—a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father's legacy after his death—the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy.
Chung is a master at capturing emotion, and her characters—human and otherwise—will claw their way into your heart and make themselves at home.

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    March 12, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593822005
      • File size: 205004 KB
      • Duration: 07:07:05

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 22, 2024
      Chung’s dynamic collection (after the novel Sea Change) employs various genres and styles to illuminate her Korean American characters’ grief and regret. The evocative and playful opener, “How to Eat Your Own Heart,” which will put readers in mind of Lorrie Moore, takes the form of a macabre set of instructions for recovering from heartbreak: “Plunge your heart into the boiling water the way you would for lobster.” Some stories utilize elements of Korean folklore. For example, “Human Hearts” follows a young kumiho (a fox-like creature) who plots to avenge her sister’s death at the hands of a shaman and lives with the knowledge that she was always second-best in her mother’s eyes. Other entries verge into science fiction. In “Presence,” Amy gets a divorce from her husband after his memory-uploading biotech company is investigated for malfeasance. Chung shines the most when portraying intense emotions with realism, such as in the beautifully strange closer, “The Love Song of the Mexican Free-tailed Bat,” about a woman tenderly caring for her dead scientist father’s bats in the way she wishes he’d cared for her. Chung’s talents are on full display in these contemplative tales. Agent: Danielle Bukowski, Sterling Lord Literistic.

    • Library Journal

      May 31, 2024

      A step-by-step recipe on how to prepare and eat your heart. A woman haunted by what she has lost and forgotten owing to high-tech memory cataloguing services. A kumiho (Korean fox spirit) mourning her sister considers fulfilling her mother's desire for revenge. Stories of girlhood and growing up, of family dynamics and the Korean American experience, of grief and loss, and of finding oneself again fill every corner of Chung's (Sea Change) stunning speculative short story collection. Narrators Jeena Yi, Sue Jean Kim, and Hannah Choi artfully deliver each introspective story in calm tones that carry depths of emotion, hooking listeners into the inner lives of each character. Several stories play with perspective, using the first-person plural "we" or second-person "you" instead of the expected first or third person, which works particularly well in audio format. VERDICT A touching and compelling collection that will resonate broadly. Pair with Pik-Shuen Fung's Ghost Forest or Isabel Yap's Never Have I Ever.--Zoey Colglazier

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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