Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend-an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow-comes to claim her at last. "Ghost story, family saga, parable, feminist reimagined myth: Angela Mi Young Hur’s hugely ambitious Folklorn is 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." -Celeste NgĪ genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families.Įlsa 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. Join Porter Square Books for a virtual talk with Angela Mi Young Hur, author of the new novel Folklorn! She will be joined in conversation by Kat Howard. This event is free and open to all, hosted on Crowdcast.
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