Heart Eater — 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin

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. Published July 28 by Black Lawrence, the inaugural title of its Immigrant Writing Series — 350 pages.