{"product_id":"the-loved-ones","title":"The Loved Ones","description":"\u003cblockquote type=\"cite\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/22\/books\/review\/road-trip-vacation.html\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0F4woCi_FwPQGZtLExPVSQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/22\/books\/review\/road-trip-vacation.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003efeatured Match Book recommends\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus’s \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/sonya-chung\/the-loved-ones-chung\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0ZLymoxVA9dj_WF8N5-dnO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/sonya-chung\/the-loved-ones-chung\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Fiction of 2016\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/diy\/16November.pdf\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2LDt1om9AVEuOiXe6qv7XE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/diy\/16November.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIndie Next List\u003c\/a\u003e selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory%3Dfall-indie-fiction-best-novels-and-short-stories-beyond-the-mainstream\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3Amsv0vFKP9JoZVCmnjiD2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=fall-indie-fiction-best-novels-and-short-stories-beyond-the-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Indie Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/buzzfeed.createsend.com\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/EC8742EBCC22D2CC\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/?tx%3D0%26previewAll%3D1%26print%3D1%26__utma%3D103424671.2136143216.1427727956.1477513493.1477513493.1%26__utmb%3D103424671.8.10.1477513493%26__utmc%3D103424671%26__utmx%3D-%26__utmz%3D103424671.1477513493.1.1.utmcsr%253D%2528direct%2529%257Cutmccn%253D%2528direct%2529%257Cutmcmd%253D%2528none%2529%26__utmv%3D103424671.%257C1%253Duser-type%253Dprospect%253D1%26__utmk%3D256777739%26_ga%3D1.80156500.2136143216.1427727956\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0GHoxuFcERJ9Zne-ddPQyH\" href=\"http:\/\/buzzfeed.createsend.com\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/EC8742EBCC22D2CC\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/?tx=0\u0026amp;previewAll=1\u0026amp;print=1\u0026amp;__utma=103424671.2136143216.1427727956.1477513493.1477513493.1\u0026amp;__utmb=103424671.8.10.1477513493\u0026amp;__utmc=103424671\u0026amp;__utmx=-\u0026amp;__utmz=103424671.1477513493.1.1.utmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29\u0026amp;__utmv=103424671.%7C1%3Duser-type%3Dprospect%3D1\u0026amp;__utmk=256777739\u0026amp;_ga=1.80156500.2136143216.1427727956\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuzzfeed Books Recommends\u003c\/a\u003e selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful novel of inheritance and loss Sonya Chung (\u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eproves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras Hwang Sun-won and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions illicit love and costly reconciliations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee the young African American patriarch of a biracial family seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington DC by making an honorable choice when his chance arrives. Years later in the mid-1980s uneasy and stymied in his marriage to Alice he finds a connection with Hannah Lee the teenage Korean American caregiver whose parents' transgressive flight from tradition and war has left them shrouded in a cloud of secrets and muted passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA shocking and senseless death will test every familial bond and force all who are touched by the tragedy to reexamine who their loved ones truly are-the very meaning of the words. Haunting elliptical and powerful \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the world we think we know and shows us the one we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the interview with Sonya Chung on \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003ehttps:\/\/electricliterature.com\/sonya-chung-on-race-risk-reinvention-885d77c90633#.gwusewgq6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonya Chung\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sonya-chung.com\/books\/the-loved-ones\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sonya-chung.com\/books\/the-loved-ones\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3a3Saq3EOj3qo3XslMdNIk\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Relegation Books, 2016) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781416599678\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781416599678\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw33Ch7-hXxQUBRLwSf3GhyJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong for This World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Scribner, 2010). She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/bronxarts.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/bronxarts.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3-P0B7gpZi3uHeH1kHsYaG\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBronx Council on the Arts\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003eWriters’ Residency, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kwls.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.kwls.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw17MWjjn7-vh7NLZVnLKyNw\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKey West Literary Seminars\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e residency, a Studios of Key West residency, and an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.escape2create.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.escape2create.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3aFLYwPmgzdGJy9vOzfgoG\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEscape to Create\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e residency.  Sonya’s stories, reviews, \u0026amp; essays have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Review, Tin House, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sonya-chung\/art-before-life-questioni_b_655582.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sonya-chung\/art-before-life-questioni_b_655582.html\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2OAsF5djwrqgR0riPleaLr\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sonyachung\/my-pleasure?utm_term=.vygqN1G9l#.ki28Neq5X\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sonyachung\/my-pleasure?utm_term%3D.vygqN1G9l%23.ki28Neq5X\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0cYyDHoLu5ciZpZSAmtDgP\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C01YTBI\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=9325\u0026amp;creativeASIN=B00C01YTBI\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=bloom00e-20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C01YTBI\/ref%3Das_li_tf_tl?ie%3DUTF8%26camp%3D1789%26creative%3D9325%26creativeASIN%3DB00C01YTBI%26linkCode%3Das2%26tag%3Dbloom00e-20\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2VCh2ILCwXE4HTli0KSa9j\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"More info about this book at powells.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/short-an-international-anthology-of-five-centuries-of-short-short-stories-prose-poems-brief-essays-other-short-prose-forms-9780892554324\/1-1\" rel=\"powells-9780892554324\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/short-an-international-anthology-of-five-centuries-of-short-short-stories-prose-poems-brief-essays-other-short-prose-forms-9780892554324\/1-1\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3iIhQ0GqaDgYbWeJZudb9m\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eShort: An International Anthology\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781580056687\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781580056687\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw1t7t7dk3ouMi8vPnToxjGW\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThis is The Place: Women Writing About Home\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSonya has taught fiction writing at Columbia University, Skidmore College, NYU, Warren Wilson’s MFA program, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Currently she lives in New York City, where she is Director and a programmer at a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/filmforum.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/filmforum.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2XE6zlLhezY718wU79Z91K\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enonprofit arthouse cinema\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sonya Chung's stunning second novel \u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e charts the unexpected ways in which families form, fracture, and rebuild…The Loved Ones renders anguish with devastating precision — through the quiet confidence and grace of Chung's poetic prose. There's a heartfelt, heartbreaking purity to this novel unlike anything I've encountered in a long time. Read it, revel in it, and then go hold your loved ones tight”.  —\u003cstrong\u003eLincoln Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Buzzfeed Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with breathless urgency. It was as expansive as I needed it it to be while also telling the most personal of family stories. Much missing American immigration and great migration history was missing for me before this beautiful story helped piece it together. From the first page this novel is brimming with prismatic, intersectional moments I was not aware of between Korean and black Americans in the post war era. The intergenerational aspect just helps the pages race by as generations carry each other’s burdens and triumphs through the years. Fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomegoing \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will feel this novel is a blessing on their nightstands.”  —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannah Depp\u003c\/strong\u003e, Loyalty Bookstores\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sonya Chung's prose is elegant sparse and heartbreaking in a way that reminds one of Elena Ferrante or Clarice Lispector. In this novel of two very different but interconnected families both named Lee she tells the story of love against the twin inheritances of shame and grief. This book is a complication of the immigrant narrative in a way that is long overdue and necessary. A gorgeous and important second novel.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eNayomi Munaweera, \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eWhat Lies Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sonya Chung's new novel \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e spans generations and cultures to capture what it means to be a lost child in a lonely world. In compelling prose Chung lays bare the devastating effects of tragedy on family-then boldly suggests the power to heal lies beyond our loved ones. Shattering assumptions about loss and longing this shimmering tale of dangerous love will break your heart and mend it too.\"---\u003cstrong\u003eBridgett M. Davis,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of\u003ci\u003e Into the Go-Slow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Within a multigenerational saga about family race and difference \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e unfurls an elegant love story about two people bound to one another through tragedy yet kept apart by time and circumstance. The pages of this gorgeous novel gave me insight upon insight characters I grew to love and the most satisfying ending I've read in a very long time.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eShannon Cain,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Certain Behaviors \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The story of Charles and Alice their children Veda and Benny and their babysitter Hannah and her parents pushes boundaries. Chung (\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Long-for-This-World-Sonya-Chung\/pid=3908500\"\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 2010) takes us from 1951 to 2005 and from Washington D.C. to Korea and Paris drastically reframing our world by exploring difficult ideas and raising awareness of our capacity for empathy. In achieving this she joins in the best tradition of world literature. Part immigrant narrative part coming-of-age fiction with interwoven themes of interracial marriage the role of absentee fathers and the continued hold of the past this tale charts a nuanced journey that follows no convenient tropes. This is particularly striking in the story of Hannah's Korean immigrant parents Chong-ho and Soon-mi. In a book full of complex characters and plot twists the sparse and elegant prose creates a quietness that allows contemplation of one of life's big questions \u003ci\u003eWhat is love?\u003c\/i\u003e Chung's adeptness in capturing the soaring drama of subdued interactions makes this worth a read. But it is her ability to be at once subversive and optimistic radical and reassuring that makes this a must-read.\" \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShoba Viswanathan,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeous multigenerational saga of love and race loss and belonging Chung's (\u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e 2010) latest follows the intertwining lives of two very different families in Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Frederick Douglass Lee, the young African-American patriarch of his biracial family… is doing for his family what his own father couldn't or wouldn't. As a young soldier stationed in Korea, Charles met Alice fresh out of the Peace Corps and avoiding medical school at home. Alice got pregnant, Charles proposed, determined to \"put his head down do right and make a family.\" And so they have built a life together stable if not easy. Then Alice returns to work after years at home and the family… hires Hannah Lee, the stoic 13-year-old daughter of Korean immigrants, to look after the kids… Quietly expansive, the novel moves between the stories of the two families alternating glimpses of the past with the present: Hannah's parents' forbidden courtship in Korea and a doomed family trip back to the Hadong countryside 10 years later; Alice's early adulthood and the night she met Charles. Every last one of Chung's characters is wholly alive and breathtakingly human but it's her portrait of teenage Hannah-always complicated never romanticized-that makes the novel such a heart-wrenching pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant and empathetic a book impossible to put down.\" \u003ci\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"meta-pub-date\"\u003eSept. 1st 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526314643731,"sku":"9780984764846","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_9ec36cf8-7ced-497a-9b8d-da2e885e7fdd.jpg?v=1785850586","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/the-loved-ones","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}