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Jihyun Yun is a Korean American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area who now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Some Are Always Hungry, a Prairie Schooner Prize winning poetry collection. And The River Drags Her Down is her debut novel.

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A gripping and poignant horror story inspired by the Korean folklore, perfect for fans of CG Drews, Kylie Lee Baker and Ninth House

'Terrifying, and yet so painfully tender.' ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE

'Utterly haunting.' KEALA KENDALL

'A perfect blend of melancholy, horror and humour.' SUNYI DEAN

'Achingly beautiful.' MELINDA SALISBURY

"I'm haunted," she said. "You should know that I'm haunted and I did it to myself."

To pay her way through college, con artist Lamb Sun arranges marriages for the dead. But when the grieving family of a ghost bride abruptly backs out, Lamb does the unthinkable and binds herself to a ghostly groom with a grudge to bear.

Unbeknown to Lamb, she hasn't just drawn one dead boy to her. She has unleashed something sinister on campus - a faceless, wretched thing. And if she doesn't find a way to banish both spirits to the afterlife, she risks more lives than her own...

'I absolutely devoured this.' Reader Review 

'The ending completely ruined me.' Reader Review 

'A haunting so tender it becomes visceral.' Reader Review 

'Horrifying and beautiful and so meaningful.' Reader Review 

'A journey I'd take again every time.' Reader Review