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All the World Can Hold.
'Let the Great World Spin' meets 'The White Lotus' in this new novel from Jung Yun about about three passengers from wildly different backgrounds who board a cruise ship bound for Bermuda shortly after 9/11 and learn en route that they cant outrun their regrets about the risks not taken.
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- ISBN: 9781668200599
- Physical Description: 352 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Publisher: Canada : 37 Ink, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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Let the Great World Spin meets The White Lotus when three passengers from wildly different backgrounds board a cruise ship bound for Bermuda shortly after 9/11 and learn en route that they canât outrun their regrets about the risks not taken.
Itâs Sunday, September 16, 2001. Franny and her husband have traded in their elegant Park Avenue co-op for a suite on board the Sonata, a once-glittering cruise ship with a complicated history now long past its prime. Though theyâre not âcruise people,â Franny is determined to host the trip as planned because itâs her motherâs seventieth birthday, or chilsun, a major rite of passage celebrated by Korean families. But as her husband keeps pointing out, Franny and her mother arenât close, and it is surrealâeven wrongâto be on a cruise as the death toll from the attacks on 9/11 continues to rise.
Also on board is Doug, an aging actor and former star of Starlight Voyages, the hit Love Boatâstyle television series famously filmed on the Sonata. With few professional prospects, a now sober Doug has reluctantly joined his former castmates on a reunion cruise for fans of the show, but he dreads the dark specter of his past misdeeds. Meanwhile, Lucy, the only Black female graduate student in her department at MIT, has uncharacteristically accepted an invitation to join her roommate on the cruise during the height of recruitment season. Lucyâs impulsive decision reflects her growing ambivalence about the tech companies that are trying to hire her, including a new one with a strange-sounding name, Google.
All the World Can Hold beautifully explores how we balance our needs and our wants, as well as the regrets we live with and the chances to set them right. And though itâs not a 9/11 novel, it does remind us that while the great world spins, the interpersonal dramas donât cease, even as more dire ones play out in the larger world.
