Heart Eater — 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin

Out July 28 on Black Lawrence, 350 pages, inaugural title of the Immigrant Writing Series. Built as 'field notes' — short essays each logging one encounter with a word about race, kinship or citizenship, cut with photographs and documents. Shin interrogates the gumiho and turns the figure back on the adoption industry. Five poetry collections before the memoir; the order matters.