Korean American experience resonates in ‘The Prince of Mournful Thoughts’
Oct 13, 2020
2 minutes
“There is so much I wish to make my daughter understand, but cannot,” an immigrant father muses about his pregnant daughter. “I am sure she feels much the same way.”
That disconnect between generations, between cultures, between histories, looms in Caroline Kim’s stupendous debut, “The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories.”
Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’s preeminent awards
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