Wrestling with Ghosts: Joseph Han’s Nuclear Family
“Mostly,” this novel warns us, “the dead are at peace. But when they are not, this is when they may ask something of us, attempt to guide our lives to fulfill what they could not.”
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Ariel Djanikian
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Ariel Djanikian is the author of the novel The Office of Mercy (Viking/Penguin, 2013). Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and Tin House, and her essays and book reviews can be found at the Kenyon Review Online, the Paris Review Daily, and The Millions.
Homage as Provocation: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility
Pretend you are Austen. Enact an Austen novel. And what will happen?
