His immediate plan is to “write a story of my parents from the very beginning and give this to them for my seventeenth birthday.” Knowing their time together is limited, “instead of awards or a college diploma, I would gift them a story.” Their life together has hardly been easy, although undoubtedly, love and devotion have never been in short supply. Areum suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes rapid, premature aging: “My dad sees his future eighty-year-old face in mine.”Īt 16, he’s the age his parents were when they had him. The youngest winner ever of multiple important literary prizes in her native Korea, Ae-ran Kim’s first full-length novel arrives Stateside, hauntingly English-enabled by lauded translator Chi-Young Kim (no relation).
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