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Pushcart Award nominee Sonya Chung has viewed her stunning expertise in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she makes the compelling storyline of a stressed family straddling ethnicities, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel . . . In 1953, on a tiny island in Korea, a guy stows away on the ferry that is holding his older sibling and his better half to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on the plane flying back to Korea, leaving behind his own better half in America. It is his girl, Jane a war photographer recently hurt in a bombing in Baghdad and obligated to return to New York who journeys to find him in the tiny town in South Korea where his brothers have settled. Here, daddy and girl take refuge using their company demons, flirt with enthusiasm, and, in the wake of tragedy, discover something deeper and more enduring than they would have imagined . . . Just as Monica Ali's Brick Lane introduced readers to a world that is both spectacular and immediate, Miss This World illuminates the complexities and the richness of family bonds and establishes Chung as an exciting new words in fiction . . .
