Gina Chung

Here are fifteen pitch-perfect stories about women trying to make their own way: featuring daughters, divorcees, fox demons, a praying mantis, and... green frogs. A young girl reconnects with her Korean grandmother; an artist considers her connection to the Korean folktale of the green frog; a praying mantis living in a beautiful home overlooking the park finds the New York...

Sea Change tells the story of Ro, who finds herself stuck as she enters her thirties. Estranged from her mother and freshly single after her boyfriend leaves to join a mission to Mars, Ro's life feels adrift. Days are spent dragging herself to a dull job at an aquarium, while her nights drown in sharktinis—a mix of mountain dew, gin,...