Author
Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon writes literary fiction and war. We've read and reviewed 3 of Paul Yoon's books, including Etna and The Hive and the Honey: Stories, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Etna
by Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon's Etna is a war novel narrated by a bomb-sniffing dog making the long walk back to the coastal farm he was taken from as a puppy. It runs barely 200 pages, told in flat, unadorned sentences and lands harder than novels three times its length. Literary fiction about home, and what peace actually costs.
Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
Run Me to Earth is Paul Yoon's spare, decades-spanning novel of three orphaned teenagers surviving the secret war in 1960s Laos as motorcycle couriers for a field hospital. It's literary historical fiction about aftermath more than battle: what one evacuation decides, and how loss keeps arriving across continents and years.
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
by Paul Yoon
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.