A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island.In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son.In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen.In upstate New York, a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town and attempts to build a family. From award-winning author Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey is a bold and indelible collection that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters.How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind?What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in the far east of Russia?A collection laced with beauty and cruelty, The Hive and the Honey is the work of an author writing at the very height of his powers.
