today is Korean-American day ❤️❤️

reminder we all have very different immigration experiences and aren’t monolith. and there is room for all those stories!
Here are some Korean-american storytellers and their work that I admire:

@TooManyJames_s: Moonface

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moonface/id1479092574

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‎MOONFACE on Apple Podcasts

‎Drama · 2019

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moonface/id1479092574
Matt Blesse (who doesn't have Twitter)
@salesses https://www.amazon.com/Disappear-Doppelg%C3%A4nger-Novel-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1503943259
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: A Novel

Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: A Novel

https://www.amazon.com/Disappear-Doppelg%C3%A4nger-Novel-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1503943259
. @nicolesjchung https://books.catapult.co/products/all-you-can-ever-know-by-nicole-chung
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Real Simple, Bustle,...

https://books.catapult.co/products/all-you-can-ever-know-by-nicole-chung
just finished @Jbrekkie's book: about identity, death, grief, and korean food. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612676/crying-in-h-mart-by-michelle-zauner/
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner: 9780525657743 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean America...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612676/crying-in-h-mart-by-michelle-zauner/
. @hanbae is a word genius. just read this: https://pigeonpagesnyc.com/thecostofamother
Cost of a Mother — Pigeon Pages

https://pigeonpagesnyc.com/thecostofamother
. @rokwon https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634677368/the-incendiaries-is-a-poignant-and-powerful-look-at-campus-life
'The Incendiaries' Is A Poignant And Powerful Look At Campus Life

R.O. Kwon's new novel explores the attractions — and dangers — of faith, against the overheated, over-the-top backdrop of an upper-crust college somewhere in the Northeastern United States.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634677368/the-incendiaries-is-a-poignant-and-powerful-look-at-campus-life
Lee Isaac Chung
. @alexanderchee. read all his books but if you read one: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/600903235/how-to-write-yes-but-alexander-chees-latest-is-more-mesmerizing-memoir
'How To Write,' Yes — But Alexander Chee's Latest Is More Mesmerizing Memoir

Chee does include some writing tips in his new How To Write An Autobiographical Novel -- but this collection is less a writing lesson than a deeply considered and beautifully written memoir.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/600903235/how-to-write-yes-but-alexander-chees-latest-is-more-mesmerizing-memoir
. @stephycha https://www.harpercollins.com/products/your-house-will-pay-steph-cha?variant=32123651129378
Your House Will Pay

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “[A] suspense-filled page-turner.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer "A touching portrait of two families bound together...

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/your-house-will-pay-steph-cha?variant=32123651129378
. @cathyparkhong https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605371/minor-feelings-by-cathy-park-hong/
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong: 9781984820389 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human “Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605371/minor-feelings-by-cathy-park-hong/
. @deannliem I mean she's the best and all her docs are the best! watch and support if you support korean adoptees and asian american storytelling. https://www.mufilms.org/films/ 
Films

https://www.mufilms.org/films/
. @e_alexjung this essay he wrote killed me. especially as someone who moved to korea for 4 years and shares the same family name. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ealexjung/korean-american-asian-american
I Thought Going To Korea Would Help Me Find Home

When I moved to Seoul after growing up in America, I was a foreigner who looked native. I ended up staying for three years — but eventually I had to go home.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ealexjung/korean-american-asian-american
. @jessicasunlee pours her heart out in her art and writings. https://jessicasunlee.com/product-category/books/
Books Archives - JS LEE

Only shipping within the US at this time.

https://jessicasunlee.com/product-category/books/
. @minjinlee11 for tackling a misunderstood and often hidden history of our motherland (the japanese occupation). https://www.minjinlee.com/book/pachinko/ 
Pachinko

A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.

https://www.minjinlee.com/book/pachinko/
and @jaycaspiankang's reporting and writing. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html?pagewanted=all
That Other School Shooting (Published 2013)

Seven people were killed at a nondescript nursing school in Oakland one year ago. Should it matter that the shooter was a Korean immigrant? It does to Koreans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html?pagewanted=all
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