The Wet Hex

Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions. Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex . Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid’s Metamorphoses , Christopher Columbus’s journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the