“An elegant punch to the face . . . beautiful and hard and hungry, full of sharp, painful observations, slicing clichés open like prickly pears and devouring their hearts.” —Amal el-Mohtar in the New York Times Book Review
“Folklorn is extremely ambitious in scope, and the writing never fails to deliver. . . . Angela Mi Young Hur engagingly blends Korean folktales with literary traditions for a fresh take on both the universal story of identity and assimilation, and the national tale of han.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
“A gorgeous journey into the intersection of science and myth and how our past traumas shape us—but how they need not define us.” —NPR “Best Books of 2021”
“Haunting and spiritual and touching, and so unique. This is absolutely one to be cherished.” —Tor.com, “30 Most Anticipated Books of 2021”
“A complex meditation on intergenerational trauma. . . . This thought-provoking work will appeal to SFF fans who like their talk of particle physics side by side with fox spirits and fairy tales.” —Publishers Weekly
“Genre-defying and emotionally unsettling, it is a book that refuses to stay in whatever category the reader wants to put it. . . . Well worth the effort.” —Locus
“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 Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
“Vivid and delectable. Angela Mi Young Hur is equally at home working in the fertile territories of myth and the fantastic as in the nuanced portrayal of a contemporary, complex family. I loved this.” – Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
“Dark, difficult, and riveting—Folklorn gave me endless trouble, and I appreciate it.” —R. F. Kuang, author of The Poppy War
“In Folklorn, Angela Mi Young Hur weaves the fantastic into the realism of a compelling family saga, creating a heartfelt novel as original as it is irresistible.” —Mat Johnson, author Loving Day
“Hur writes with virtuosity and power, weaving together the ribbons of the mythic with the complex tapestry of family and history to create a gorgeous, moving whole.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians
“Folklorn is a work of capacious, original imagination: part supernatural mystery, part immigrant family story. Hur’s mixing and melding of genres is an inventive, elegant means of illuminating the dualities of diasporic experience, as well as a testament to the essential role of stories in understanding our identities.” —Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl
“This novel is brash, defiant and ultimately full of yearning.” —Chia-Chia Lin, author of The Unpassing
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