The Invisible Hotel
A Novel
A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative tale of political and ideological adolescence in the long afterlife of the Korean War.
Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented bones, reminders of what they have all lost to a war that never seems to end. Yewon and her siblings were…
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March 5, 2024YEJI Y. HAM is a Korean Canadian writer. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and her M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. At Brown, she completed a short story collection titled Doraesol, and a part of the manuscript was awarded the Frances Mason Harris’ 26 Prizes in Fiction. Her works have appeared in Shorts (Platypus Press), Wilderness Journal, The Rivet Journal, The Broome Street Review and No Tokens Journal.
