What Fiction Faculty Juan Martinez Has Been Reading

By Juan Martinez, MFA Fiction Faculty    

The book I’ve been reading that everyone should get their hands on, when it comes out in August 2023, is Jimin Han’s delightful, surprising novel The Apology. The narrator is a cranky centennial! There are family secrets, lots of wonderful comedic passages in a novel that doesn’t shy from darkness or history or death—and for all of that it’s handled with a light touch, a willingness to explore the complicated affiliations that form along bloodlines, generational divides, class, and love. Just a hell of a good read, generous with its ghosts both literal and figurative, told with wit and relish and intelligence.