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Skinship
by Yoon Choi
Excellent and stunning and beautiful collection of short stories that just made me feel so damn much.
Standouts:
Church of Abundant Life
First Language
Solo Works for Piano (probably my favorite)
Song and Song
I truly love novels and stories about stark differences in generations and how people navigate growth and life in a new country, particularly when the shift is so dramatic (Korea to the United States.) The translations are fascinating to me, how words are built and handled in the hands in such different ways among languages and how to bridge the gap between the two. Trying to exist somewhere in between. The stories covered a variety of scenarios and situations that were not reduced to simply "immigrant" but rather covered birth and death, family relations, neurodivergence, loss, and characters that did not fall into the often-referenced stereotypes about how people from a country or culture *should* be - this is what made this a 5-star collection of stories for me. It showcased the diversity not only on a level of culture and ethnicity but in individuals and did away with the notion that they don't exist, which is important, because they can often take a backseat and the experiences glossed over and it may be easy to come away with the notion that they aren't present.
All in all, spectacular, would read again, might get a copy.
Standouts:
Church of Abundant Life
First Language
Solo Works for Piano (probably my favorite)
Song and Song
I truly love novels and stories about stark differences in generations and how people navigate growth and life in a new country, particularly when the shift is so dramatic (Korea to the United States.) The translations are fascinating to me, how words are built and handled in the hands in such different ways among languages and how to bridge the gap between the two. Trying to exist somewhere in between. The stories covered a variety of scenarios and situations that were not reduced to simply "immigrant" but rather covered birth and death, family relations, neurodivergence, loss, and characters that did not fall into the often-referenced stereotypes about how people from a country or culture *should* be - this is what made this a 5-star collection of stories for me. It showcased the diversity not only on a level of culture and ethnicity but in individuals and did away with the notion that they don't exist, which is important, because they can often take a backseat and the experiences glossed over and it may be easy to come away with the notion that they aren't present.
All in all, spectacular, would read again, might get a copy.