This Part Is Silent, SJ Kim
This Part Is Silent, SJ Kim
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This Part Is Silent
A Life Between Cultures

Author: SJ Kim

Narrator: Hannah Choi

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2024


Synopsis

A searing essay collection that explores displacement and loss, creativity and change, institutional power and progress.

Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between generations—especially within the Asian diaspora in the West—as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lockdown.

Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught—and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope.

About SJ Kim

SJ Kim was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Briann on April 03, 2024

3.5 I was really confused for the first part of the book. The author interjects with family stories and memories with no introduction or background information. It makes it very hard to tell what is going on for the first part of the book. The second part of the book had more structure and clarity fo......more

Goodreads review by Mollie on April 20, 2024

Stunning. Intelligent and thought provoking. Raw and vulnerable. Melissa Febos meets Crying in H Mart.......more