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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Sidework

Sidework

Hom, Sasha Wol-Soon

Paperback

Series: Immigrant Writers

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1625571569
ISBN13: 9781625571564
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sasha Hom's Sidework is a lyric, page-turning novella about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four. During her busy Sunday shift waiting tables, her customers-- rock stars, locals, and the Grim Reaper himself-- bring her face to face with larger issues of motherhood, suicide, environmental degradation, death, and belonging.

In this thought-provoking and often humorous debut from award-winning author Sasha Hom, herself a Korean adoptee and mother of four, the protagonist loses her home when the intentional community/commune where she and her family used to live-- off-grid, in a canvas tent on three hundred acres-- is sold. Sidework takes place during a Sunday breakfast shift as the homeless hero waits tables at a popular ' Cash Only' diner tucked in the Redwoods, frequented by growers, rock stars, Dreamers, tycoons, and tourists alike. But with each order she takes, each interaction serves only to bring her closer to her ghosts. Unnamed and unknown, from far-off continents, they ask her what it means to be a good mother.

Intricately woven, lyric, and atmospherically layered, Hom's debut marries the mystic and mythic with the mundane while taking on issues of immigration, colonization, climate change, homophobia, motherhood, and adoption.

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