Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skinship | 2021 | Yoon Choi | Buy |
Yoon Choi’s collections bring together stories about Korean and Korean-American family life. Her debut, Skinship (2021), features characters spread across generations and continents, all dealing with the weight of expectation, the difficulty of communication, and the physical and emotional distances that immigration creates.
The title refers to the Korean concept of physical closeness as a form of affection, and Choi uses that idea as a thread running through stories that range from a mother visiting her adult son in New York to an elderly couple grappling with memory loss. Each piece is short but dense with feeling.