She has always known the rules: Never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand. But that was before her sister died. . . .
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“Yun beautifully captures the haunting of family myths in this slow-burn horror. Eerie and poignant, And The River Drags Her Down will sweep readers into its relentless current.” —Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She Is a HauntingWhen her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring Mirae back from the dead. At first, the sisters are overjoyed, reveling in late-night escapades and the miracle of being together again, but Mirae grows tired of hiding from the world. She becomes restless and hungry . . .
Driven by an insatiable desire to finish what she started in life, to unravel the truth that crushed her family so many years ago, Mirae is out for revenge.
When their town is engulfed by increasingly destructive rain and a series of harrowing, unusual deaths, Soojin is forced to reckon with the fact that perhaps the sister she brought back isn’t the one she knew.
Jihyun Yun is a Korean American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area who now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of
Some Are Always Hungry, a Prairie Schooner Prize winning poetry collection. A recipient of various fellowships and grants, she received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis and an MFA in poetry from New York University.
And The River Drags Her Down is her debut novel.
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A beautifully written, grief-filled tale that’s equal parts creepy and heart-wrenching."
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Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Lyrical prose renders meaningful, tear-jerking sequences and propulsive horror alongside frank examinations of the cycles of generational trauma."
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Publishers Weekly, starred review
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The prose has a gut-punching clarity, calibrated with precision and elegance to deliver a deeply felt meditation on the desperate things people do to keep grief at bay, holding dearly onto what they know must go."
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The Bulletin, starred review
"Yun’s intent to help readers live with grief is
well-executed as she reminds readers of the importance of facing it."
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School Library Journal“Yun beautifully captures the haunting of family myths in this slow-burn horror.
Eerie and poignant,
And the River Drags Her Down will sweep readers into its relentless current.”
—TRANG THANH TRAN,
New York Times bestselling author of
She Is a Haunting
“A river-stained book about sisterhood, selfishness, and the human desire to be understood and loved . . .
Heart-wrenchingly beautiful.” -- Andrew Joseph White,
New York Times bestselling author of
Hell Followed with Us and
Compound Fracture“
Dark, taut, and perpetually stunning . . . Yun’s mesmerizing debut crafts a disquieting tale of lonely creatures unraveling loss, and what it means to return to yourself.”
—WEN-YI LEE, author of
The Dark We Know“
Compelling. Darkly beautiful and haunting, this Gothic tale leads you on a captivating journey that will linger long after you’ve finished reading.”
—JOSH SILVER, author of
HappyHead
