Eunmi Choi

Eunmi Choi is the author of three short story collections and the novel The Ninth Wave, which won the prestigious Daesan Literature Prize and is now being translated into five languages. Choi’s fiction explores womanhood and motherhood in contemporary Korea from a realist’s perspective, rendered rich with psychological depth and mythical imagination. “Unnae” is her first English-language publication.

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Unnae

Eunmi Choi  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

Before sending me off to Unnae, Mom had stressed this. That I should address Mountain Lord as Mountain Lord. That I should not call her Granny. That in Unnae there would be a girl named Seung-mi. That I should be friends with her.