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Sung J. Woo's short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, PEN/Guernica, and KoreAm Journal. He has written two novels, Love Love (2015) and Everything Asian (2009), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award (Youth category). In 2014, Everything Asian was chosen for Coming Together in Skokie and Niles Township. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey. ...more

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	Everything Asian 3.42 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Deep Roots, Siobhan O'Brien #2

Hello folks,

Voila!

It took a while (too long!), but the followup to my first mystery novel, Skin Deep, starring intrepid private eye Siobhan O'Brien, is finally out. It was in fact published as of this past Tuesday, so I'm even late on that account. :(

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“Right here was her favorite part of sex. Judy had borne witness to her share of masculine denouements to know of their obvious commonalities -- the quickening of breath, the increased force of motion, the eventual spasm, and the long, satisfied sigh. But at the same time, they were as singular as snowflakes, and Judy believed she could tell a lot about a man from his brief ride through penile ecstasy. Because here, there were no walls, just a clear window into the vulnerable truth of a person.”
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“They'd pass the time talking about some vapid TV show or the latest popcorn flick, never talking about anything of consequence, but when you stacked up these incidental layers of small talk, they added up to a level of comfort impossible to duplicate in any other relationship.”
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“She was living in the present but was preoccupied with the future's past, doing exactly what years of therapy had told her not to do. You were supposed to live in the moment, because that's all there ever was, and yet it was maybe the hardest thing to do.”
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