Skinship by Yoon Choi

Skinship by Yoon Choi

A PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE NOMINEE - The breathtaking debut of an important new voice--centered on a constellation of Korean American families

To encounter these achingly truthful, beautiful stories of newcomer Americans is like gazing up at the starry vault of a perfect night sky; it's immediately dazzling and impressive, and yet the closer and deeper you look, the more you appreciate the sheer countless brilliance. --Chang-rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad

A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims.

Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground, where meaning falls in the cracks between languages, where relationships bend under the weight of tenderness and disappointment, where displacement turns to heartbreak.

Skinship is suffused with a profound understanding of humanity and offers a searing look at who the people we love truly are.

YOON CHOI was born in Korea and moved to the U.S. at the age of three. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins and is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, and The Best American Short Stories 2018. She lives with her husband and four children in Anaheim, California.

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ISBN 13	9780593318218
ISBN 10	0593318218
Title	Skinship
Author	Yoon Choi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2021-08-17
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize 2022
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