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Skinship: Stories
by Yoon Choi
While I'm not Korean, there were so many stories in "Skinship" that felt achingly familiar, and representative of the Asian American experience as a whole. There's nothing terribly novel or farfetched covered in these short stories, but Choi takes on the perspective and thoughts of a new character in each, and manages to pull out such a unique range of experiences and emotions. It's difficult to pick favorites, but I can still recall: "The Church of Abundant Life", where a Korean immigrant couple are reunited with their long lost friends and memories after many years; in "Skinship", a mother must come to terms with the consequences of her actions in the past; in "The Art of Losing", a young Korean American girl sees what the cost of becoming "American" truly is.
Choi's prose carries the reader throughout each of these stories, but is somehow able to still adopt a new tone and style with each story. A deceptively simple work that beautifully captures the Korean American experience.
Choi's prose carries the reader throughout each of these stories, but is somehow able to still adopt a new tone and style with each story. A deceptively simple work that beautifully captures the Korean American experience.