‘A Wolf in the Shell’: Life as a Korean Adoptee Is an Existential Condition
Raised by white Americans, poet Sun Yung Shin meditates on child abandonment, secrets, and fate through the famed Oedipus myth
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8 min readMay 20, 2021
“A creature that hides and ‘withdraws into its shell,’ is preparing a ‘way out.’ This is true of the entire scale of metaphors…
