The Eyes Are The Best Part

The book that is crawling under ever readers skin...

Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying... yet enticing.

In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George's, who is Umma's obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family's claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma's fawning adoration. No, George doesn't deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.

For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won's hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.

A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.

ONE LINE PITCH: Part literary horror, part feminist howl The Eyes Are The Best Part is a cross between Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite and Boy Parts by Eliza Clark.

MULTIMEDIA: The film and TV rights for The Eyes Are The Best Part have been bought by Universal Studios.

BOOK OF THE FAIR: The book was the scouts 'BOOK OF THE FAIR' at this year's LBF.

FEMALE CANNIBALISM: This is one of the first major books on female cannibalism, which is set to be a huge trend over the coming year.

Author Biography

Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean-American living in Los Angeles's Koreatown. She learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to Los Angeles from Seoul in 1985.