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Jung Yun

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Jung Yun was born in South Korea, raised in North Dakota, and has lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and most recently, Baltimore, Maryland, where she currently resides. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House, The Best of Tin House: Stories, The Indiana Review, and The Massachusetts Review.

Her latest novel is All the World Can Hold, which will be published by 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster in March 2026. Her other novels are O Beautiful, a The New York Times and Amazon Editor’s Choice, and Shelter, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an Amazon Best Book of the Month selection in two categories (Literature/Fiction and Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense), an Indie Next selection, an Apple iBooks' Best Books of the Mon ...more

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Are you working on another book? If so when is it expected to be published? I have recommended your book to so many who have absolutely loved it. I still think about it all the time which to me is the sign of a truly great novel.
Jung Yun Thanks so much for your kind note and for asking what I'm up to these days. I'm hard at work on book #2 but it's a challenging one, structurally and t…moreThanks so much for your kind note and for asking what I'm up to these days. I'm hard at work on book #2 but it's a challenging one, structurally and thematically speaking, so I'm definitely taking my time with it. No pub date yet, but soon, I hope. Thanks in the meantime for recommending Shelter to others. I really do appreciate it! (less)
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Jung Yun For me, writing is about asking questions that I find deeply interesting but have no "true" answers, so I write to find an answer that feels true and …moreFor me, writing is about asking questions that I find deeply interesting but have no "true" answers, so I write to find an answer that feels true and meaningful to me. In the case of SHELTER, I really wanted to understand how an estranged family with a long history of abuse could recover from a random act of violence. Thanks for your question, Callixta. (less)
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Average rating: 3.69 · 14,940 ratings · 2,568 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Shelter
3.73 avg rating — 9,050 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions
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“At twenty two, he didn't have the foresight to understand how one decision could affect so many others. Now that he's older and everything has settled into a just-tolerable state of atrophy, the options he once had-options that his young students still have- feel like they've passed him by.”
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“If you think too much, you won’t ever accomplish anything.” Had”
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“Weekends are best when there's nothing to do and no one to see.”
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Oct 31, 2017 12:59PM

Charles Porter Thank you for asking me to be your GR friend. I live in Dartmouth, Mass. in the summer and am a fan of a lot of New England stories, even though my own stay in S. Florida for now. Wonder if you've ever heard of a book called, Moon Tide, by Dawn Trip? Charles Porter


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