Secondhand World Reprint Katherine Min by Katherine Min 9780307490636, 0307490637 instant download after payment.

Growing up the daughter of Korean-born parents, Isa is bullied by American classmates & barely noticed at home. Seeking the company of another outsider, Isa falls in love with Hero, an albino boy. But what starts out as a small teenage rebellion sets in motion a series of events & revelations Isa never could have foreseen.

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"Told in achingly evocative prose that lingers in your consciousness. . . . Raw, emotionally urgent & peppered with acute detail." —Los Angeles Times

“Engaging both history & the needs of the passionate self, Secondhand World reveals an exquisite & powerful imagination.” —The Providence

Leaves the reader breathless with questions about one’s own capacity to forgive.” —Ms.

“Katherine Min gives such celebrated writers as Louise Erdrich, Zadie Smith & Amy Tan a run for their money. Exquisitely written, wrenchingly imagined, Secondhand World will stand your hair on end.” — The Buffalo News

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Katherine Min‘s short stories appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Three-penny Review, Glimmer Train, and others; she received an NEA grant, a Pushcart Prize, a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, two New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowships & a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, & attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, Ucross, Hambidge, the Millay Colony, & Ledig House. Her debut novel Secondhand World was a runner-up for the PEN-Bingham Award in 2007. The Fetishist is her first posthumous publication.

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