Created by Sung J. Woo
An intriguing and button-pushing debut, Skin Deep (2020) pokes into all sorts of ideas about identity, race, image and the nature-versus-nurture fandango, and introduces us to middle-aged Korean-American rookie P.I. SIOBHAN O’BRIEN.
Very Korean-sounding, huh?
Turns out she was adopted by an Irish father and a Norweigan mother as an infant) struggles to carry on after her boss at Ed Baker Investigative Agency of Athena, New York, keels over from a heart attack. And then she discovers good ol’ Ed, much to her dismay, has left her the agency.
The first in a proposed series by Sung J. Woo, whose short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and KoreAm Journal. His first novel, Everything Asian, Â received praises from the Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey.
NOVELS
- Skin Deep (2020) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
