Sea Change

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE‘Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!’ – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Aquarium worker Ro’s life is imploding:1. Her boyfriend is on a one-way mission to Mars2. Her best friend is ignoring her existence3. Dolores (the giant Pacific octopus) is going to be soldAs storms rage around her, can Ro get back on course?‘Chung’s writing is masterful, and Sea Change is glorious’ - Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal and Memorial‘Chung has proven she is a true original’ Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl

Absolutely stunning ... Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!, Chung’s writing is masterful, and Sea Change is glorious, There are no limits to what Chung can do. Her prose is so immersively beautiful that at times I felt swept away in a wave, admiring from underwater, her scintillating refractions of light., Sea Change tugged at my heart and refused to let go. With tenderness and perceptiveness, Chung deftly navigates family, loss, friendship and the intricacies of love, especially for ourselves, A wild blessing of a debut. Gina Chung’s curiosity, precision and grace have created a world both strange and recognizable, the kind of place you can find a version of yourself you did not know existed, and call her home.

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Catapult, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review and Idaho Review among others. She is also the author of the story collection Green Frog. Sea Change is her first novel.