A review by amandamlyons
Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung

3.0

Your Utopia is an interesting collection of sci-fi stories on different topics, some of them humorous, some serious, and most speaking about culture and it's consequences for each of its characters. This was my first time reading Bora Chung and I'm honestly still trying to decide how I felt about this collection in some ways. I genuinely enjoyed some of the stories, particularly in the second half of the book, but others didn't quite click the way I had hoped. The first story was particularly frustrating for me, stilted and structured toward a bit of a run on narrative that didn't keep me engaged or strike me as funny, though that was clearly the idea. The ones I liked were more thoughtful stories about apocalyptic scenarios, memory retrieval, and things along these themes.