Kim Ronyoung

Praise for Clay Walls

Clay Walls is a story about immigration and colonial trauma, and it is also a story about marriage, class, and patriarchy ... A beautifully written work of American literature that is both absorbing and deepl ...

Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires

By interweaving the three themes of the Korean immigrant experience – Korean culture, American racism and Korean nationalism – Kim has created an important novel

Eun Sik Yang, The Los Angeles Times

Political-historical moments are the pearls of the novel … One is grateful for being invited into that closeted but lively world

The New York Times

Clay Walls is a story about immigration and colonial trauma, and it is also a story about marriage, class, and patriarchy ... A beautifully written work of American literature that is both absorbing and deepl ...

Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires

By interweaving the three themes of the Korean immigrant experience – Korean culture, American racism and Korean nationalism – Kim has created an important novel

Eun Sik Yang, The Los Angeles Times

Political-historical moments are the pearls of the novel … One is grateful for being invited into that closeted but lively world

The New York Times

Clay Walls is a story about immigration and colonial trauma, and it is also a story about marriage, class, and patriarchy ... A beautifully written work of American literature that is both absorbing and deepl ...

Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires

By interweaving the three themes of the Korean immigrant experience – Korean culture, American racism and Korean nationalism – Kim has created an important novel

Eun Sik Yang, The Los Angeles Times

Political-historical moments are the pearls of the novel … One is grateful for being invited into that closeted but lively world

The New York Times