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![]() She is brilliant, poised and determined, and while her prose is keen and tidy, the intimate relationships she creates in her stories are messy enough to be true. I met her at Tin House Writer’s Workshop in 2012, where I first witnessed the compassion she transmits from her heart to the page. Juno will stop at nothing to get it all, including top rank in the university’s prestigious social club, “the Circle.” And Sunam, lover and villain, drives a wedge between the women, changing their lives forever.īorn in Seoul, Wuertz immigrated to the US when she was six. Namin, her childhood best friend, lifts her family out of poverty by soaring to the top of the class. Jisun, a tycoon’s daughter, shuns her privilege to become an underground labor activist. ![]() ![]() Four students - Jisun, Namin, Sunam, and Juno - struggle to succeed financially and socially during the final years of a repressive regime that also incited an economic transformation in the country. In her debut novel Everything Belongs To Us, Yoojin Grace Wuertz transports readers back to 1978, to Seoul National University in South Korea. ![]()
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