{"product_id":"drifting-house-9780143122937","title":"Drifting House","description":"Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. Amid the famine in North Korea, the financial crisis of South Korea, and the cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls of the United States, Krys Lee's vivid and luminous tales speak to the political and financial hardships of life in Korea and the uniquely unmoored immigrant experience.\u003cp\u003e In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee's \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e and Jhumpa Lahiri's \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrifting House\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable work exploring love, identity, war, and the homes we make for ourselves, by a dazzling new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKrys Lee is the author of \u003ci\u003eDrifting House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow I Became a North Korean\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian\/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, in South Korea.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565430116626,"sku":"9780143122937","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5d0949d-8293-4b71-8f84-48e787f1852c.jpg?v=1731885766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/drifting-house-9780143122937","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}