{"product_id":"the-hive-and-the-honey-stories","title":"The Hive and the Honey: Stories","description":"Winner of The Story Prize\nLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\nA Time Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Library Journal, Electric Literature, and the New York Public Library\n\n“Expansive, haunting, and intimate.” —Sabir Sultan, Pen America\n\nFrom the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.\n\nA 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. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family.\n\nThe Hive and the Honey is a “virtuosic” (Vanity Fair) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one 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 Far East Russia?\n\n“Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere.” —Time, 100 Must-Read Books of 2023\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1668020793\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1668020793.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Yoon, Paul\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41517318111290,"sku":"DBV.1668020793.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1668020793-0.jpg?v=1783833283","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-hive-and-the-honey-stories","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}