Unbearable Splendor by Shin Sun-Yung

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Coffee House, paperback

Publication Date: October 11, 2016

Publisher Marketing: “[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”–Star Tribune
Sun Yung Shin moves ideas–of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Sophocles)– around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be at home.
What is a cyborg but a hybrid creature of excess? A thing that exceeds the sum of its parts. A thing that has extended its powers, enhanced, even superpowered.

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