**Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the
human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and
extinctions.
**Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which
Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and
responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own
archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher
Columbus's journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin
explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the
hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous
Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic
revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present,
conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.