Skull Water

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A sweeping inter-generational story of war, displacement, and coming of age—think of Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered, Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Lisa See's The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Spiritual coming-of-age story: Fenkl is a folklorist and translator interested in Eastern religions and mythologies. The novel touches on geomancy, Buddhism, shamanism, and old Korean folktales. Interest in Korea: From enormously successful visual media like Parasite and Squid Game to the bestsellers Crying in H Mart and Pachinko, South Korean culture and history have generated national interest in recent years.(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/world/asia/squid-game-korea-bts.html). New Yorker first serial: Fenkl is a hugely talented writer, an excerpt of Skull Water was published in the New Yorker, accompanied by a Q&A, with the author (https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-this-week-2015-08-03)Autobiographical novel: Fenkl's own Korean childhood, on which the novel is largely based, will provide media opportunities. Author is an authority on Korean folklore: Fenkl has taught folklore at various universities and has edited a number of anthologies of Korean folktales. Opportunity for a break-out novel: This highly accomplished second novel comes 25 years after Fenkl's first novel and is much more ambitious in scope.