Nuclear Family: A Novel

"Joseph Han’s heartfelt and hilarious novel is so well executed, so self-assured, that it’s hard to believe it’s a debut. The book follows the members of a Korean American family in Hawaii whose lives are thrown into disarray when one of them, an English teacher living in South Korea, goes viral after trying to cross the DMZ. Guy Fieri, who makes a cameo in the novel, might call this book “off the chain”; we’ll just settle for “masterful.”"