Poet and essayist Sun Yung Shin’s Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, examines intimate moments in the author’s Midwestern childhood that gradually reveal aspects of a United States built–by design–out of contradictions, illusions, and inequalities; growing up in a deeply racialized America while haunted by the rewriting of her Korean self, the author never sees herself in books, but finds her way to a writer’s life full of deep connection and radical possibility.