HIVE AND THE HONEY

A boy searches for his father a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New York a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town and attempts to build a family. From award-winning author Paul Yoon The Hive and the Honey is a bold and indelible collection that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in the far east of Russia? A collection laced with beauty and cruelty The Hive and the Honey is the work of an author writing at the very height of his powers.