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jentjentjent 's review for:
Skinship
by Yoon Choi
A collection of short stories centered around Korean-American immigrant experiences. Although fiction, the stories feel like they come from a very real place. Choi tapped into many emotions and it was easy to empathize/sympathize with the characters. Not sure how many people noticed, but she also orders her stories from themes of re-birth to death to re-birth again. She starts with a pastor who preaches about life, then moves onto a couple who try to have kids but can’t, then a young girl in school, to a mom taking her child to piano, to a family moving in with their relatives, to a man with alzheimers (this story really made me feel a lot of things in my heart), to hospice care, to finally death and discussion of afterlife.