{"product_id":"wet-hex","title":"Wet Hex","description":"\u003cb\u003eSun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePersonal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in \u003ci\u003eThe Wet Hex\u003c\/i\u003e. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher Columbus's journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, \u003ci\u003eThe Wet Hex\u003c\/i\u003e layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41875197100107,"sku":"9781566896382","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_acfa3378-3cb9-4f42-941c-7260836e8d9f.jpg?v=1762334194","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/wet-hex","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}