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The loneliness of the central character in Esther Yi's 'Y/N' is universal : NPR

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Yi about her novel, which features a Korean American woman who finds awakening in her devotion to a K-pop star. AILSA CHANG, HOST: We're going to spend the next several minutes talking about obsession, the guts of it, the contradictions of it, the suffering of it. And we're going to examine obsession through the eyes of a Korean American woman living in Berlin who works as a copywriter for a canned artichoke heart business. And in this otherwise mundane life, she finds spiritual, romantic and intellectual awakening in her devotion to a K-pop superstar named Moon. Now, she remains unnamed as the central character in the new novel by Esther Yi called "Y/N". But maybe her anonymity is for the better because there is something so universally recognizable in her religious fervor and loneliness, in her distortion of reality as she admires from afar. There is something about her that is in all of us. Esther Yi joins us now. Welcome. ESTHER YI: Hi. CHANG: Hi. So fo

Author Interviews The loneliness of the central character in Esther Yi's 'Y/N' is universal March 21, 2023 4:23 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By Justine Kenin , Linah Mohammad , Ailsa Chang The loneliness of the central character in Esther Yi's 'Y/N' is universal Listen &middot; 8:15 8:15 Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed "> < iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1165092731/1165112961" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript

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