Title Folklorn / Angela Mi Young Hur.

Publication Info.	New York : Erewhon Books, 2021.
	©2021

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Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FIC HUR	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction	F HUR, ANGELA	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction	F HUR ANGELA	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction	FIC HUR	Check Shelf

Edition	First US Edition
Description	408 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	"Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend - an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow - comes to claim her at last.Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate: the mental illness and generational trauma that run in her immigrant family, a sickness no less ravenous than the ancestral curse hunting her. When her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes, Elsa must return to her childhood home in California. There, among family wrestling with their own demons, she unravels the secrets hidden in the handwritten pages of her mother's dark stories: of women's desire and fury; of magic suppressed, stolen, or punished; of the hunger for vengeance."--Publisher.
Subject	Korean American women -- Fiction.
	Women scientists -- Fiction.
	Imaginary companions -- Fiction.
	Mental illness -- Fiction.
	Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
	Family secrets -- Fiction.
	Korea -- Folklore -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Magical Realism.
	FICTION / Asian American.
	FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
	Blessing and cursing. (OCoLC)fst00834275
	Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651
	Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
	Imaginary companions. (OCoLC)fst00967560
	Korean American women. (OCoLC)fst00988579
	Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
	Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
	Korea. (OCoLC)fst01206434
Genre/Form	Fantasy fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
	Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
ISBN	9781645660163 (hardcover)
	1645660168 (hardcover)

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