There is a particular kind of magic in watching a writer
build an entire universe out of a single summer house, a stack of old love
letters, and the ordinary ache of growing up. Jenny Han has done exactly that,
not once but twice, and in doing so she has become one of the most quietly
powerful storytellers in American popular culture.
Born on September 3, 1980, in Richmond, Virginia, to Korean
parents, Han grew up as what she has often described as a bookish, dreamy child
who found comfor...
