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Six novels feature characters who hunger for connection so strongly that they transform their environments.
Credit.Ryan Gillett
May 27, 2021, 9:55 a.m. ET
Assembling columns is often an exercise in serendipity. For this one, I looked for works I thought would be wildly different from one another: a collection of short stories in translation, a debut about a single consciousness in multiple bodies, a young-adult techno-thriller, an Antarctic ghost story. But I was surprised to find, as I read my way through them, that they explored similar themes: adoption and child-rearing, intergenerational traumas, and characters who hunger for connection, communion and belonging so powerfully that they transform their environments, on scales ranging from the municipal to the cosmic.
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Angela Mi Young Hur’s
Folklorn, a genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families publishing April 27th with Erewhon Books.
Elsa 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.