Green Frog: Stories

A step-by-step recipe on how to prepare and eat your heart. A woman haunted by what she has lost and forgotten owing to high-tech memory cataloguing services. A kumiho (Korean fox spirit) mourning her sister considers fulfilling her mother’s desire for revenge. Stories of girlhood and growing up, of family dynamics and the Korean American experience, of grief and loss, and of finding oneself again fill every corner of Chung’s (Sea Change) stunning speculative short story collection. Narrators Jeena Yi, Sue Jean Kim, and Hannah Choi artfully deliver each introspective story in calm tones that carry depths of emotion, hooking listeners into the inner lives of each character. Several stories play with perspective, using the first-person plural “we” or second-person “you” instead of the expected first or third person, which works particularly well in audio format.