The Wet Hex

In her novel "The Wet Hex," Sun Yung Shin explores questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility against the backdrop of personal and environmental violations, incorporating sources such as archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus's journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals. Shin layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality that is both beautiful and terrible.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Coffee House Press

Sun Yung Shin takes readers on a captivating journey into the enigmatic and uncertain future of the human species, unveiling a mesmerizing underworld museum that chronicles the births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions of our species. Set against the backdrop of personal and environmental violations, Sun Yung Shin delves into profound questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in her novel, "The Wet Hex." Through a rich tapestry of sources, including her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Christopher Columbus's journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the intricate ways in which lives are measured, valued, and exchanged. By challenging the traditional hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, she embraces indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, layering an apocalyptic reimagining of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present. The result is a captivating and terrifying reality that is both beautiful and terrible, leaving readers pondering the intricacies of human existence and the forces that shape our world.

Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781566896382