{"product_id":"folklorn-paperback","title":"Folklorn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngela Mi Young Hur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ghost story, family saga, parable, feminist reimagined myth: Angela Mi Young Hur's hugely ambitious \u003ci\u003eFolklorn \u003c\/i\u003eis a spellbinding shape-shifter of a novel that tackles questions of race, culture, and history head-on, exploring the blurry boundaries between past and present, fact and fantasy, and personal and cultural--or cosmic.\" --\u003cb\u003eCeleste Ng\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Little Fires Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 Indie Next Pick May 2021 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend--an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow--comes to claim her at last. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother warned her that women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But Elsa also faces a more earthly fate: the mental illness and generational trauma that run in her immigrant family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes, Elsa must return to her childhood home in California. There, among family wrestling with their own demons, she unravels the secrets hidden in the handwritten pages of her mother's dark stories: of women's desire and fury; of magic suppressed, stolen, or punished; of the hunger for vengeance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFolklorn \u003c\/i\u003eis a wondrous and necessary exploration of the myths we inherit and those we fashion for ourselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Mi Young Hur\u003c\/b\u003e received a B.A. in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame, where she won the Sparks Fellowship and the Sparks Prize, a post-graduate fellowship. Her debut \u003ci\u003eThe Queens of K-Town\u003c\/i\u003e was published by MacAdam\/Cage in 2007. \u003ci\u003eFolklorn\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen by Kelly Link for a Tin House novel mentorship through the Tin House Summer Workshop, where Hur also studied with Alexander Chee and Mat Johnson, and later with Peter Ho Davies at the Napa Valley Writers Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256059904249,"sku":"9781645660422","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VS0TjUHgGS9781645660422.webp?v=1768730926","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/folklorn-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}