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Coffee HousePress, paperback

Publication Date:June 14, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Sun Yung Shin leads her readers into the underworld, a witchy Garden of Eden where death blooms in many forms.

From an extended image of baby-as-exit-wound to her now-extinct Korean zodiac animal, the tiger, personal and environmental losses form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of identity, evolution, and violence inThe Wet Hex. Using archival materials from her own childhood immigration processor was it the beginning of an exile?Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered, and reflects on the pain of separation permeating the lives of so many Korean adoptees. Smashing the hierarchies of god and man, heaven and hell in favor shamanic wisdom,The Wet Hexbrings us into the sublime moments of birthed experiencethe beautiful and terrible all in one.