Seattle Restored
Home Authors Posts by Casey Cha

Casey Cha

3 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

Kafka Meets K-Pop: Fanatical fanfiction blurs fantasy and reality

Y/N takes the reader on a Kafkaesque journey that bursts the bubble of contemporary parasocial fantasy into reality with annotations of generation Z and millennial quirks. This is Esther Yi’s debut novel. She was...

A transracial adoptee from South Korea shares her slice of life in heart-wrenching debut...

Marginally based off of Lauren J. Sharkey’s experience as a transracial adoptee, An Inconvenient Daughter is her debut novel. At the age of three months, Lauren was adopted by a Caucasian and Catholic family from Long Island,...

Violets is a recipe for a dangerous liaison: Desire and repression

Upon graduating from Seoul Institute of the Arts, Kyung-sook Shin made her writing debut with Winter’s Fable. Since then, she catapulted and became a revered writer in South Korea for some of her notable works, Deep...