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God-Disease

God-Disease

Chang Joon, An

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 195604633X
ISBN13: 9781956046335
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Winner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Muñoz.

Imagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korea, or even Korean American. This is where God-Disease takes place. Strange things happen here. Identities warp and shift; sometimes they vanish altogether. In the titular story, a museum insect curator returns to her birth town, J Municipality, feeling empty and searching for answers to her mother's absence; was it insanity that plagued her, or was it shin-byeong--god-disease?

Equal parts Southern Korean Gothic and slipstream, the collection is a meditation on language, identity, and names, and how deceptively fragile they can be.

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