Nuclear Family A Novel

Joseph Han

eBook - 2022

Winner of the AAAS Book Award for ProseAPALA Adult Literature Honor BookShortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist PrizeLonglisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA TIME Best Book of the YearSet in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this "fresh, inventive, and at times, hilarious novel" (Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants)Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach after a visit... from Guy Fieri boosts the profile of Cho’s Delicatessen. Their daughter, Grace, is busy finishing her senior year of college and working for her parents, while her older brother, Jacob, just moved... more