{"id":4754,"date":"2004-06-25T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:13","slug":"translations-of-beauty-a-novel-by-mia-yun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/translations-of-beauty-a-novel-by-mia-yun\/","title":{"rendered":"Translations of Beauty: A Novel by Mia Yun [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/06\/Translations-of-Beauty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31429\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/06\/Translations-of-Beauty.jpg\" alt=\"Translations of Beauty\" width=\"306\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>Two Korean American twin sisters \u2013\u00a0one scarred from a tragic childhood accident, and the other untouched \u2013\u00a0have become estranged in adulthood. Now in their late 20s, they find themselves traveling together through Italy. Yunah, the unscarred twin \u2013\u00a0at least on the outside \u2013\u00a0reconstructs their early Korean childhood, their Brooklyn adolescence and coming of age, in an attempt to define a future relationship with the now withdrawn and distant Inah. Although written with undeniable grace and fluidity, the sisters\u2019 continued inability to just communicate \u2013\u00a0which, yes, is probably the point \u2013\u00a0nevertheless proves rather tedious.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, June 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4194\" title=\"Translations of Beauty\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/translations-of-beauty.jpg\" alt=\"Translations of Beauty\" width=\"121\" height=\"193\" \/>Two Korean American twin sisters \u2013 one scarred from a tragic childhood accident, and the other untouched \u2013 have become estranged in adulthood. Now in their late 20s, they find themselves traveling together through Italy. Yunah, the unscarred twin \u2013 at least on the outside \u2013 reconstructs their early Korean childhood, their Brooklyn adolescence and coming of age, in an attempt to define a future relationship with the now withdrawn and distant Inah. Although written with undeniable grace and fluidity, the sisters\u2019 continued inability to just communicate \u2013 which, yes, is probably the point \u2013 nevertheless proves rather tedious.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, June 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,38,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,58,10,51,4657,44,4658],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-korean-american","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-mia-yun","tag-siblings","tag-translations-of-beauty"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Translations of Beauty: A Novel by Mia Yun [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/translations-of-beauty-a-novel-by-mia-yun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Translations of Beauty: A Novel by Mia Yun [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two Korean American twin sisters \u2013 one scarred from a tragic childhood accident, and the other untouched \u2013 have become estranged in adulthood. 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