Rezension: Jay Caspian Kang: “The Dead Do Not Improve”

Jay Caspian Kang’s debut novel, “The Dead Do Not Improve,” demands to be accepted on its own terms. Korean American journalist Kang has penned a darkly comic novel about Philip Kim, a late Gen-X MFA from Columbia.

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