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The Hive and the Honey: Stories Hardcover – October 10, 2023

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Winner of The Story Prize
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
A Time Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Library Journal, Electric Literature, and the New York Public Library

“Expansive, haunting, and intimate, Paul Yoon’s new short story collection The Hive and the Honey…shows Yoon at the height of his powers.” —Sabir Sultan, Pen America

From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.

A boy searches for his father, a prison guard, on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family.

The Hive and the Honey is a “virtuosic” (Vanity Fair) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in Far East Russia?

“Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere.” —Time, 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
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    5.5 x 0.8 x 8.38 inches
  6. ISBN-10
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  7. ISBN-13
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"The book is 148 pages of exquisite, subtly interwoven narratives—a brief, evocative volume perfect for sinking into on a plane ride or a gray winter day. Sometimes I’ll read and love a book but over time its images slip away; those of The Hive and the Honey lodged fast and remain as vivid as those in a dream." —Vanity Fair, 20 Best Books of 2023

"Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere." —TIME Magazine, 100 Must-Read Books of 2023

"In a quietly powerful short-story collection, Paul Yoon creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Korean diaspora. In these stories, one of which appeared in the magazine, Yoon’s characters struggle to find a place for themselves in a world where life can be capricious and harsh, but sometimes marked by grace." —The New Yorker, The Best Books We Read This Week

"In seven virtuosic stories centering characters that include a 17th-century samurai and a contemporary New York immigrant, Yoon captures scenes of the Korean diaspora." —Vanity Fair, 13 New Books to Read This Month

"Paul Yoon masterfully explores the shared history, displacement, alienation, and the lasting effects of war....Yoon’s lean and cutting prose dissects truth and inheritance, interweaves haunting tales with mundane lives, and reveals far-flung characters searching for home." —Electric Literature, "Electric Lit's Best Short Story Collections of 2023"

“Yoon’s new short-story collection is another spare, controlled masterpiece, comprising seven exquisite stories highlighting the Korean diaspora scattered across time and oceans.” —Terry Hong, Booklist (starred)

"Expansive, haunting and intimate, Paul Yoon’s new short story collection The Hive and the Honey (Marysue Rucci Books, 2023) shows Yoon at the height of his powers. Following characters of the Korean diaspora throughout history and across geographies, the collection’s stories ask essential questions about how we build families and homes." —Sabir Sultan, Pen America


"With spare language and open questions, Yoon draws attention to the physical vastness of the world, and the emotional nearness of our experiences within it." —Oprah Daily, The Award-Winning Books You’ll Actually Love

"The Hive and the Honey comprises seven masterful short stories that span 500 years of Korean diaspora...Yoon’s grandfather escaped North Korea, and the author’s works deal fittingly with belonging, home, immigration, and identity." —TIME Magazine, The 15 New Books You Should Read in October



"Yoon’s haunting, evocative new collection centers on themes of migration, displacement, collective memory and the Korean diaspora." —New York Times, 34 Works of Fiction to Read This Fall

"A complex look at alienation, identity, and the lasting effects of war.... Yoon’s attention to historic detail makes these tales of displaced people all the more affecting."
—TIME Magazine, 36 Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2023

“Yoon carefully mingles the extraordinary with the everyday, evoking the natural world with simple yet striking language…This is an elegant exploration of life’s brutal and beautiful moments.”
—Publisher's Weekly

"The third short story collection (his first since 2017’s The Mountain) from Young Lions Fiction Award-winner and Guggenheim fellow Yoon spans cultures and centuries, roving from small town New York, where a formerly incarcerated man tries to start a new life, to the Edo Period in Japan, where a Samurai escorts an orphan boy back to his countrymen. Yoon’s 2020 novel-in-stories Run Me to Earth—a subtly devastating panoramic portrait of three lives displaced by war—was one of the standout books of that year, so I’m pretty damn excited for this one."
—Lit Hub (Most Anticipated Books of 2023)

“Stories that echo with the loss, regret, and hope of migrants and nomads.”
—Kirkus

"Yoon weaves complex tales of belonging and identity, of cultures clashing and building upon each other to create the multitudes that exist within communities."

—Patricia Thang, BookRiot

The Hive and the Honey is much more than an exquisite, beautiful collection of short stories. Yoon roves geographic and historical points, catching stories of the Korean diaspora and, in the best way, the way of great literature, locates narratives that would disappear forever if he didn't find them, characters far from home, longing for home, finding ways to reconcile and embrace complex new landscapes. This is a book about all of us. If you let each of these wonderful stories into your soul, you'll feel the way I felt when I read this collection. I was in the hands of a vivid, powerfully honed imagination and came out better, more human, having learned something new about the world.
—David Means, author of Two Nurses, Smoking

"The stories in The Hive and the Honey are geographically and temporally diverse. Each opens an inviting door to a seemingly calm moment in life, only to cast the readers into the deep and murkey undercurrent of history. Amid violence are moments of gentleness; underneath darkness and bleakness are glimpses of light and humor. Yoon is a beautiful and beguiling writer, and should be called a national—or, international—treasure!
—Yiyun Li, Author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

About the Author

Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. .

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books (October 10, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668020793
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1668020791
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.38 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. For more information, please visit: www.paulyoon.com

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  • Amanda C
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful collection of stories
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024
    This collection of stories is beautiful. Each tale is a story of identity interwoven with culture and what makes a person who they are. Each tale is focused on a Korean individual and ranges from tales of modern day to those of the world wars.

    These stories definitely tug at the heartstrings. Some of them because of the pain of loss, the pain of growing up, or the pain of realizing you've become someone you never wanted to be. A couple of them were so good that I would have loved to read a full-length novel to really dive into the characters and their backstories. But each story was very enjoyable on its own.
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  • Lundy E. Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Yoon is a master story teller
    Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024
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    Paul Yoon's latest story collection is stunning. It's like Chekov and Claire Keegan had a love child who writes encompasses both of their best elements in short fiction. The stories are deceptively simple in their presentation, but filled with nuance and wonderful ambiguity.
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  • Ann Marie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Short Stories of Korean people
    Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2023
    I love short stories and this book was a really good one. I learned a lot about Koreans being away from their homeland and their experiences.
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  • MaryAnn Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant collection exploring 400 years of the Korean Diaspora
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2023
    𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮, 𝙋𝙖𝙪𝙡 𝙔𝙤𝙤𝙣⁣
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    I can’t resist a reading experience that introduces me to a time or aspects of a culture that expand my understanding. I had high hopes for The Hive and the Honey, and it did not disappoint. Paul Yoon’s new release is a brilliant collection of seven memorable stories exploring 400 years of the Korean diaspora. The collection chronicles themes of displacement, home, identity, and belonging, as well as the clash of cultures across borders and centuries. I felt compassion for the humanity of these characters and wanted to know them more deeply. At times, I found myself pausing to research the maps and the evolving history of Korea. I look forward to reading more of Yoon’s oeuvre.⁣
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    I highly recommend reading The Hive and the Honey if you favor subtle character sketches that will broaden your understanding of the unique experiences of the Korean diaspora.⁣
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  • KasaC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Latest from a favorite
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2023
    Paul Yoon has become one of my favorite authors to seek out. His writing while poetic and haunting, carries weight and even his cruelties aren't gratuitous. This is the third book of his that I've read, and I'm always surprised at his choices. Here there are seven stories in which he continues exploring underlying themes of diaspora and trauma, misunderstandings fostered by cultural differences, attempts at blending in. As I've made clear many times before, a well written collection of stories can be more challenging than a novel of equal length since it requires more work, but in this case, each story is worth the effort. If I were to single out just one, I believe it would be Cromer, but this is that rare instance when each story is a winner.
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  • whatithinkis
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not surprised
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
    To find myself skimming almost the entire final two thirds of this work. I had enjoyed a recent publication of a single of his short stories in a magazine . . . the collections so far, however, not so much. Disappointed by 'The Mountain' and had already signed this out of the library so I went ahead . . . Nope.
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