{"product_id":"hive-and-the-honey-book-paul-yoon-9781668020791","title":"The Hive and the Honey","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of The Story Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and the New York Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Expansive, haunting, and intimate.\" --Sabir Sultan, \u003ci\u003ePen America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A boy searches for his father, a prison guard, on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Hive and the Honey\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"virtuosic\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in Far East Russia?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime,\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Must-Read Books of 2023","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49752963416337,"sku":"CIN1668020793VG","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49882511540497,"sku":"CIN1668020793G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51044724080913,"sku":"NIN9781668020791","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1668020793.jpg?v=1751089728","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hive-and-the-honey-book-paul-yoon-9781668020791","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}