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Key ideas from the book
- The stories explore identity and belonging across different countries and historical periods.
- Characters reckon with the inheritances and connections that shape their lives.
- The collection portrays the complexity of diasporic communities and immigrant life.
- Its varied settings include Sakhalin Island, Barcelona, Edo-period Japan, and upstate New York.
- Readers interested in literary short fiction about migration and cultural collision will find much to consider.
About The Hive and the Honey: Stories by Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon’s The Hive and the Honey is a story collection about identity, belonging, and the complexities of diasporic communities. Its stories cross countries and centuries, tracing the inheritances and connections that shape people’s lives.
The settings and situations range from a boy searching for his father on Sakhalin Island to a woman in Barcelona asked to spy on a prizefighter who may be her estranged son. Other stories follow a samurai escorting an orphan during the Edo period and a formerly incarcerated man trying to build a family in upstate New York.
Winner of The Story Prize, the collection may interest readers of literary short fiction exploring migration, cultural collision, and the many meanings of home.
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