Sea Change

Informationen zum Autor Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change and the short story collection Green Frog . A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Catapult, Electric Literature , Gulf Coast, Indiana Review and The Idaho Review , among others. Klappentext A novel about a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific octopus. Zusammenfassung ‘Utterly original‘ – Bryan Washington, author of Memorial Ro is heartbroken. Her long-term boyfriend has accepted a one-way ticket on a mission to colonize Mars; her best friend, wrapped up in planning her own wedding, is too busy to notice. Her only consolation is Dolores, the magnificent giant Pacific octopus her father brought to the aquarium where Ro now works before he mysteriously disappeared fifteen years ago. Dolores can change into colours no one’s ever seen before. She comes from the deepest part of the Bering Strait, where conditions are hostile to life. She is the only thing, or so Ro thinks, that connects her to her missing father. When the aquarium announces that Dolores is to be sold, Ro self-destructs. Wading through memories of her youth and with the tough love from her family and friends, Ro must come to terms with her own place in an ever-changing world. Shape-shifting, dazzling and perfectly observed, Sea Change is a story of finding yourself when your compass is thrown and making your way back from the storm. ‘Sea Change stole my big weirdo heart‘ - Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl

Product details

• Authors: Gina Chung
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 10.08.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781035019427
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501942-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Sea Stories, FICTION / Animals, FICTION / Absurdist, 21st Century, Speculative fiction, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary