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Green Frog (short Story Collection)
''Green Frog: Stories'' is a 2024 short story collection by Korean Americans, Korean American writer Gina Chung. It features 15 short stories across various genres, from literary fiction to magical realism, many of which tackle matters such as womanhood and Korean Americans, Korean American experience. It was chosen as a Buzz Pick by ''Good Morning America''. Background Many of the book's short stories concern animals, nature, and Korean folktales. The book's title, as well as short story by the name, refers to the legend of the green frog (), a tale involving a green frog whose disobedience to his mother leads to her early death. Chung told the ''Chicago Review of Books'': "It’s a very traumatic story that I grew up with, and it’s common in Korean culture for wayward or disobedient children to be called ''chong kaeguri'' themselves." Chung chose to title the short story collection after the green frog per writer Vanessa Chan's recommendation. Chung stated that she "didn't r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Chung
Gina Chung is an American writer. In 2023, she published her debut novel, Sea Change (Chung novel), ''Sea Change'', with Vintage Books, Vintage, and in 2024, Vintage published her short story collection, Green Frog (short story collection), ''Green Frog''. She graduated from The New School with an MFA in fiction in 2021 and was a 2021 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. Early life Chung was born in Queens, but her parents, Korean immigrant, Korean immigrants, moved to New Jersey with her shortly after. Chung's family lived in a predominantly white part of the area, but they frequently visited the Korean Americans, Korean American part of town on weekends and for church. In ''Electric Literature'', Chung recalled the "cultural whiplash" of seeing one community on the weekdays in school versus another community on the weekends. Career Chung's writing has been published in Bomb (magazine), ''BOMB Magazine'', ''One Story'', ''Split Lip'', ''Wigleaf'', ''Catapult'', and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |