God-Disease

Winner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Mu?oz.

Imagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korea, or even Korean American. This is where God-Disease takes place. Strange things happen here. Identities warp and shift; sometimes they vanish altogether. In the titular story, a museum insect curator returns to her birth town, J Municipality, feeling empty and searching for answers to her mother’s absence; was it insanity that plagued her, or was it shin-byeong–god-disease?

Equal parts Southern Korean Gothic and slipstream, the collection is a meditation on language, identity, and names, and how deceptively fragile they can be.

Author: An Chang Joon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781956046335
Language: English