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by Monika Kim
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.
Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying ... yet enticing.
In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George's, who is Umma's obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family's claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma's fawning adoration. No, George doesn't deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.
For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won's hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.
A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.
"The perfectly executed pacing ensnares readers even as the story's palpable anxiety evolves into repulsion, daring them to pull their eyes away. Ji-won will stay with readers whether they want her to or not. With obvious nods to the serious issues that underpin Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and clearly inspired by Gillian Flynn's seminal Gone Girl, Kim has written a novel that every library needs to own." —Library Journal (starred review)
"Kim's talent buoys her tale... and distinguishes her as a writer to watch." —Publishers Weekly
"A new voice in horror tells a gripping psychological story about how one woman is driven to do the unthinkable ... Horror fans will enjoy getting to know this new author, and readers of thrillers will enjoy the unreliable narrator and the pace." —Booklist
"I was enticed from the first line and entertained throughout. The Eyes Are The Best Part is a quirky, engaging read." —Oyinkan Brainthwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer
"A tense, harrowing nightmare of a novel. Monika Kim gives us unraveling sanity, grotesque obsession, and the suffocating ignorance of toxic men. A terrific debut! I can't wait to see what she does next!" —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones
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Monika Kim is an acclaimed, Sunday Times bestselling author of "violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original" (The New York Times Book Review) horror novels. Her debut, The Eyes Are the Best Part, was a Time Magazine, New York Times, B&N, and Kobo Best of the Year, as well as a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Bram Stoker Award nominee. A second-generation Korean American, she learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to California from Seoul in 1985. She lives in Los Angeles's Koreatown and can be found online at monika-kim.com.
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