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Janie Kim

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Janie Kim was born and raised in San Diego, California. She studied molecular biology at Princeton University, went on a Fulbright research grant to Denmark, and is currently a biology PhD student at Stanford University. She likes ocean critters that are fun-sized, or, better yet, microscopic (funner-sized), and often writes about the latter for the microbiology blog Small Things Considered. We Carry the Sea in Our Hands is her debut novel.

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“I figured as much, but even so, I'm embarrassed to feel the cinching of bitterness. Ersatz emotion, I quickly label it, discard it, what a waste of heart's precious finite space. I have no concern for this person who discarded me —me that sloughed off her hands into a youth shelter. In my mind's eye, she was tearless.”
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“Living organisms have adapted to life in a turbulent world. Wings, fins, skin, scales, the shapes of bodies and cells, these are all giveaway signs of adaptation to turbulence. Amid chaos, life finds a way.”
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