Praise:
“[Hur’s] language is vivid…Her characters are intriguing and seem to glimmer and blaze on the page…a beautiful and ambitious novel…Hur's is a strident, inventive new voice.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“…reminds me of such works as Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior…Hur cares a place for mourning and grief within Cora’s experience, and that of many other daughters of Asian immigrants, within a culture taught to hide thought, need, love and sadness.” – The Feminist Review
“The author captures the essence of teen angst and cultural disassociationin an edgy and provocative treatment of a tragedy that haunts…” – Curledup.com
“…more than just another book about four women in NYC… For a story that really engrosses you, check out The Queens of K-town.” – Jade Magazine
“The best part is the reconstruction of the often baffling and occasionally heartrending experience of adolescence in dramatic scenes and vivid encounters that trust readers to divine their own meanings from these live well worth observing.” – Booklist
“Cora’s story is skillfully told by Hur…Good book for late night reading.” – PopSyndicate.com
The Queens of K-Town
By Angela Mi Young Hur
August 18, 2007ISBN: 978-1-59692-244-0
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 300
Price: $23.00 Rights: World; Audio Other Rights: Trident Media Group
Awards: Sparks Prize Recipient
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About the Book
The story of four damaged girls who love and avenge one another in the playground of New York’s Koreatown.
Reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Joyce Carol Oates’s Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, The Queens of K-town introduces us to twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon. Ten years after she watched her best friend leap off the roof of a building, she returns to New York bruised and brokenhearted, desperately trying to hold on to the pieces of her own fragile existence while simultaneously reliving her past.
Her days are flooded with memories of her first summer in Manhattan, when she became entrenched in a tight-knit group of girls who roamed the fluorescent alleyways of K-town. Along with her new teenage friends—Bev, Mina, and Soo Young—Cora navigated the fast-paced maze of nightclubs and hostess bars, engaging in backroom brawls and disastrous private meals with Korean mafia members.
A haunting tale of desire and loss, of sex and suicide, The Queens of K-Town marks the arrival of a brave new voice in fiction.