Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts the profile of Cho’s Delicatessen. Their daughter, Grace, is busy finishing her senior year of college and working for her parents, while her older brother, Jacob, just moved to Seoul to teach English. More about this book >

• HONOREE 5 Under 35 2022 >

  Selected by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi >

  Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

  

  Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novels Savage Tongues and Call Me Zebra, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the John Gardner Award, was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a best book of the year by over twenty publications. Her debut novel, Fra Keeler was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35. She received a Whiting Award, and fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and Art Omi. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She is the founder of Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, a lecture series sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame that brings together Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian and North African writers and artists.