rbcp82 's review for:

Skinship by Yoon Choi
5.0

I have a feeling that this short story collection will be the standard to which other Korean-American writers' short stories will be compared. The depiction of everyday Korean-American life is immaculate, with sharp details. A deep sense of nostalgia swept over me as I was reading these stories.

Many assets of Cho's stories are reminiscent of Alice Munro's stories: The elegance of the language use, the deeply humane feelings evoked from various relationships, the sense that each stories fulfill in the scale of a novel.

Many stories dealt with parent-child relationship, in their various stages, and also with immigrant lives.

Currently writing a review of this book for APALA (Asian Pacific American Library Association.)