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 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.