The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end.” —Roxane Gay, bestselling author of

Idols rule! Scripture is illegal! And Chungho hunts a living Cat God with a hammer, stolen maps, and the monster that wakes inside him. Break the island. Free the captives. Pay the price. In a world where worship of pagan gods is mandatory and truth is contraband, Chungho carries two secrets: a smuggled packet of Proverbs—and the thing living under his ribs that only wakes when the world tries to end him. When whispers surface of an island ruled by a living Cat God—an augmented idol who bu...

In a world that outlawed God, one man carries His last whisper beneath his skin. When Chungho’s father was imprisoned for owning a Bible, the boy learned to hide truth under the flesh. Years later, in the Empire—where vanity is religion and humility a crime—he walks the desert haunted by a serpent tatoo that hurts him every time he prays. Each city he enters worships a new kind of god: one made from appetite, mirrors, or surgery. Each promises salvation through self-creation. But when Chun...

**One of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan.“Stunning.” —New York Times Book Review**In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When she discovers she is pregnant—and that her lover is married—she accepts an offer of...

In the stunning debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle.National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the unforgettable Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who seeks both glamour and insight in Manhattan—a glittering borough she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an econom...

In a world where faith is outlawed and gods are man-made, one broken soldier walks the ruins searching for truth. Chungho was a child when the corporations became kingdoms and their executives turned themselves into living idols—rat-faced, scale-skinned, worshipped like gods. Owning a Bible became a death sentence. His father whispered Proverbs by candlelight, and those verses became his only compass when the world demanded kneeling. Now grown—and cursed with the monstrous power of the Ba’...

"The fog shouldn't have teeth. But then again, houses shouldn't breathe." Five strangers. Five countries. One impossible fog that swallows them whole. Raj Singh was walking to evening prayers in Amritsar. Min-Ji Park was rushing home before curfew in Seoul. Marcus Wade was navigating Oxford Street in London. Klaus Müller was calculating trajectories in Berlin. Isabella Santos was lost on a field trip in São Paulo. Now they're all in the same nightmare. Transformed into puppets—cloth and po...

WORLD OF OZ: THE STUDIO OF SCREAMING PIXELS A World of Oz Story Twelve game developers attended a mandatory diversity training in Vancouver. A puppet show later, they woke up in Oz—where cosmic horror isn't a game mechanic, it's Tuesday. Marcus, Aisha, Sarah, and their team thought they understood nightmare design. They'd spent years coding eldritch geometry and impossible monsters. But experiencing it? Living it? Being Modified into literal game components and forced to debug a Show desig...

Intersectional Intimacy*: Identity Work of Racialized Women in Online Dating Cultures* is the first book to examine both shared and divergent stories from those who identify as women with race-related experiences navigating online dating cultures, and to explore how their experience of intimate relationships is mediated by the apps.While many women turn to dating apps in search of intimacies, their navigations are continuously mediated and challenged by hierarchies of race...

WORLD OF OZ: THE PAINTED MOUTHS A World of Oz Story Five friends from Punjab came to witness a puppet show in an Amritsar gully. Now they're trapped in Oz—a living cosmic horror dimension where Shows transform you into twisted puppets and survival is a statistical improbability. Judy, Clara, Jack, Bert, and Billie must survive the Theater of Painted Mouths, where they're Modified into silent, voiceless forms and hunted by a monster that collects screams. To escape, they'll need to build an...

THE PORCELAIN CHILDREN A World of Oz Story There's no place like Oz. When an impossible alley appears in Seoul's Hongdae district, five strangers make a fatal mistake: they step inside. Park Ji-woo, a lost seventeen-year-old. Kim Min-seo, an exhausted mother seeking five minutes of peace. Lee Dae-jung, a retired teacher who knows these streets too well. Choi Sung-min, a university student fleeing his failures. And seven-year-old Yoon Ha-eun, separated from her class and crying in the dark....

The James Beard Award–nominated author heads south of the border to share "simple recipes that can be made on any weeknight" ( Bon Appétit).Es verdad! You can cook Mexican food on a weeknight in under one hour. Using readily available ingredients and familiar techniques, this easy-to-use cookbook makes Mexican cuisine doable for cooks at any skill level. Tacos, taquitos, flautas, burritos, and even classic Mexican desserts like Churros and cinnamon-scented ...