Ep. 120: David Yoon on Crafting a Post-Apocalyptic Page Turner in City of Orange

This week David Yoon is on the podcast to discuss City of Orange, about a man who wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, this is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are and finding our way home again.

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“Very few postapocalyptic novels have the literary qualities of this one. City of Orange belongs in a very narrow category, alongside Emily St. John’s Station Eleven, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Like all the best authors in the genre, David Yoon is willing to ask what ‘the End of the World’ really means — and provide the reader with a thoughtful, heartfelt answer.” – San Francisco Chronicle

 

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About the Author:

David Yoon is the New York Times bestselling author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and for adult readers, Version Zero and City of Orange. He’s a William C. Morris Award finalist and an Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Honor book recipient. He’s co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. He’s also co-founder of Yooniverse Media, which currently has a first look deal with Anonymous Content for film/TV development. David grew up in Orange County, California, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Nicola (NICK-olah) Yoon, and their daughter. Find out more at https://www.davidyoon.com

 

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Happy Reading and Listening,

Laura Szaro Kopinski

ABookishHome.com

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