Memento Mori

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Dont look back.

Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld Did anybody ask

Weaving together Greek mythology, neuroscience, and memories inherited from her Korean grandparents, the narrator grapples with death by telling stories to her younger brother that ask what life means for him, for her, and for their family.

Recasting the myths of Eurydice, Orpheus, Persephone, and Hades through the lens of a Korean American family, Eunice Hongs debut novel explores the grief and love of a woman coming to terms with trauma, memory, and the inescapability of death.

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Eunice Hong is the director of the Davis Polk Leadership Initiative and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. She was previously a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and a law clerk to the Honorable Richard M. Berman in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Eunice received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her JD from Columbia Law School. She resides in New York, New York.