Jiyoung Han
Jiyoung Han brings a researcher’s attention to the ways memory and history move through families. Her first novel follows Korean women across generations and borders, braiding Japanese imperial history with folklore and magical realism. Han also conducts research in climate change and human decision-making.
Life information: Living writer and climate researcher; born in Seoul, grew up in the American Midwest, and is now based in San Francisco, according to her publisher. No birth date is published in the sources reviewed.
About the author
Jiyoung Han brings a researcher’s attention to the ways memory and history move through families. Her first novel follows Korean women across generations and borders, braiding Japanese imperial history with folklore and magical realism. Han also conducts research in climate change and human decision-making.
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Honey in the Wound
A multigenerational Korean family saga in which folklore makes an imaginative language for bearing witness to histories of violence, resistance, and survival.
Avid Reader Press · ISBN 9781668202166
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