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IF YOU LEAVE ME
IF YOU LEAVE ME is a powerful, elegantly wrought debut novel reminiscent of Lily King's Euphoria and Han Kang's The Vegetarian.
A year has passed since the start of the Korean War, when teenaged Haemi, her mother, and her little brother were forced to flee their home to escape the encroaching Red Army. Now living in a small Southern village among other refugees, Haemi and her childhood friend Kyungwhan risk arrest by sneaking out at night past curfew to drink - and to try to forget, at least temporarily, the pain of their new existence. When Kyungwhan's older cousin, Jisoo, sets his sights on Haemi, she realizes that marrying Jisoo will mean much-needed security for her family but an end to her relationship with Kyungwhan. As Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, then a lover, the long-simmering tension and secrets between Haemi and the two men become impossible to contain.
The story is broken into five sections spanning sixteen years with chapters that alternate between several characters' points of view. IF YOU LEAVE ME is many things: a timely war story about what it means to be a refugee; a timeless love story with echoes of Brontë's Wuthering Heights; and a riveting, sensual, heartrending exploration of female agency and autonomy. At its heart it is the story of a complicated and conflicted young woman in a changing world.
Crystal Hana Kim holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MS in Education from Hunter College and is also a contributing editor for Apogee Journal. She is the winner of the 2017 PEN Emerging Writers Prize.
The story is broken into five sections spanning sixteen years with chapters that alternate between several characters' points of view. IF YOU LEAVE ME is many things: a timely war story about what it means to be a refugee; a timeless love story with echoes of Brontë's Wuthering Heights; and a riveting, sensual, heartrending exploration of female agency and autonomy. At its heart it is the story of a complicated and conflicted young woman in a changing world.
Crystal Hana Kim holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MS in Education from Hunter College and is also a contributing editor for Apogee Journal. She is the winner of the 2017 PEN Emerging Writers Prize.
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Published 2018-08-01 by William Morrow |