Memento Mori

"[Hong] She brings together the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, the experience of her drepression and trauma, the stories of her family, and her later struggle of grief. She lets them sit beside each other, the vignettes of conversations, memories, past and present. Seperate, they are nice. But together, in the reader's mind, they become something totally different and new--something bold, and sad, and special."--Leah Rachel Von Essen, Chicago Review of Books