The Mountain Rats - Tapa blanda

Fiction. Asian American Studies. A Korean-American journalist's first time short story collection, gives voice to an underrepresented narrative of American life: the stories of a first- generation immigrant man. Boklim's stories often unveil new aspects of stories you believe you knew, and at other times evoke familiar sentiments.

Boklim Choi is a journalist-writer. He worked for over twenty years in print media and broadcasting in the United States and Korea. He has published two poetry collections and two novels in Korean. He has also published a golf essay collection and still contributes essays to a Korean paper. This is his first collection of short stories in English. He was born and raised in Korea. He graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul and received his Master's degree in communications from City University of New York. He lives in Port Washington, New York, with his wife. He has three grown daughters.