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Chin-Sun Lee

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in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Chin-Sun Lee is Korean-American and the youngest child of North Korean exiles. After a long career in fashion design, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School in New York. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Georgia Review, Brooklyn Rail, and Joyland, among other publications. She's also a contributor to the New York Times bestselling anthology Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014). She currently lives in New Orleans. Upcountry is her debut. Her second novel, a speculative thriller titled Soon You'll Be Just Like Us, is forthcoming in May 2027 with Creature Publishing. ...more

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	Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author), Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author), Leanne Shapton (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,263 ratings — published 2014 — 17 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
	Upcountry 3.81 avg rating — 307 ratings — 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
	Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology by Julie E. Bloemeke (Editor), Dustin Brookshire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), L.J. Sysko (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.34 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 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
	Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2023	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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I wrote this and I'm proud to say so. The ubiquity of Korean plastic surgery and how it has homogenized the features of Asians to a standardized beauty ideal has been an obsession for years. That was the seed of the book but where it led me was a jou ...more
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Creepy, atmospheric, and completely original. This is a Southern gothic that lingered in my mind long after I finished reading. The hints of black magic are so subtly threaded, the world Green conjures feels like our own with a little bit extra, myst ...more
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Compulsively readable and at times enraging, this futuristic thriller in the Epstein era feels more and more like a mirror of current times. I inhaled this book—once you start, you cannot put it down.
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A dark, gorgeously written tale about capitalism and loneliness. Anyone who's ever worked a shitty job for soulless people will recognize the inhumane loops Cassie has to go through—and how she depicts San Francisco is spot on. At times, I literally ...more
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