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The Hive and the Honey: Stories Audiobook— narrated by Raymond J. Lee
The Hive and the Honey is Paul Yoon's Story Prize-winning collection of spare, haunting short stories about the Korean diaspora, moving from Edo-period Japan to Sakhalin Island to upstate New York. Literary short fiction about displacement and belonging, written with severe restraint and a surprising amount of tenderness.
Why the audiobook wins
Short story collections live or die on a narrator's ability to reset — new place, new century, new voice — without losing the thread that ties them together, and Raymond J. Lee does exactly that across Yoon's scattered geography of the Korean diaspora. His restraint matches Yoon's own: quiet, unshowy readings that let the spare prose carry its own weight instead of pushing for drama that isn't on the page.
At under four and a half hours, this is a collection built for a single sitting or a short drive, and audio suits its structure especially well — each story is a self-contained world, and Lee's steady, unhurried pacing gives you space to sit with one before the next begins in seventeenth-century Japan or upstate New York.
Yoon's collection won the Story Prize on the page, and Lee's performance honors that same restraint in the reading. One credit is a small commitment for a collection this quietly assembled.
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- Who narrates the The Hive and the Honey: Stories audiobook?
- Raymond J. Lee narrates the audiobook edition of The Hive and the Honey: Stories.
- How long is the The Hive and the Honey: Stories audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 4 hr 35 min.
- Is the The Hive and the Honey: Stories audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored The Hive and the Honey: Stories 4.2 out of 5. Short story collections live or die on a narrator's ability to reset — new place, new century, new voice — without losing the thread that ties them together, and Raymond J. Lee does exactly that across Yoon's scattered geography of the Korean diaspora. His restraint matches…
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- Is The Hive and the Honey: Stories on Kindle Unlimited?
- No. The Hive and the Honey: Stories was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 9, 2026.
- How much does The Hive and the Honey: Stories cost?
- On Amazon: Kindle $13.99, Paperback $14.02, Hardcover $18.00. Prices as of August 21, 2026 at 3:47 AM EDT and may change.
