All The Things: Our April Book!
Han and hope, ghosts and glory... a tapestry of stories about home, family, and belonging.
Paid subscribers, I’m working on a new series of writings just for you this Spring… short, more personal in-real-time stories and words for Holy Week. I can’t wait to share them with you, along with our March print and lock screen! I’m traveling this week (more on that in our private Instagram Stories) so they’ll be in your inbox late March/April. But—our next book is confirmed and I’m definitely not going to keep you waiting. Ready for a memoir? :)
Can I sneak in at the end of Sunday with our April book?! You may recognize the title — it’s one from my 5-Star Reads from 2023 round-up! And listen, I’m more than happy to start this one over again so soon, reading alongside you prior to our April Author Chat call. In fact . . . I searched through old emails for the date on this . . . Back in March of 2021 I wrote the following in Thursday Things #29:
My friend Tasha wrote a poem about the color yellow two days ago and I just keep thinking about it. She's one of my favorite writers, one of the kindest people I know, and I legitimately cried when she recently announced she signed a book deal. We are so lucky, y'all. I can't wait to have her words on my bookshelf! (Now if we can just get her to write a poem about every color because goodness, the talent. I'm looking at all the yellow things around me differently today.)
That book deal became a memoir — yes, our first All The Things memoir!! — and it is just beautiful.
A tapestry of stories...
A love letter to her mother...
A journey of holy curiosity...
An invitation to embrace the voice you’ve been given and the belonging that is yours…
Our April Book: Tell Me the Dream Again by Tasha Jun
📒 Book description:
“This mesmerizes.” ―Publishers Weekly starred review
“I’ve always felt unfit as a Korean but somehow too Korean everywhere else.”
Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land. The world taught Tasha that her Korean normal was a barrier to belonging―that assimilation was the only way she would ever be truly accepted. But if that were true, did that mean God had made a mistake in knitting her together?
Told with tender honesty and compelling prose, Tell Me the Dream Again is a memoir-in-essays exploring
what it means to be biracial in America today
the joy and healing that comes with embracing every part of who we are, and
how our identity in Christ is tightly woven with the unique colors, scents, and culture he’s given us.
We are not outsiders to God. When we let all the details of ourselves unfold―when we embrace who we were divinely knit together to be―this is when we’ll fully experience his perfect love.
📚 Book links:
Here are several quick links for ordering, but don’t forget to check your library or local bookstore.
Amazon ebook (currently 30% off)
Audiobook via Audible (read by Tasha!) (currently 30% off, or one Audible credit)
Bookshop.org (affiliate link)
📖 Suggested reading schedule:
Of course, please read/listen as it works for you! I know some of y’all prefer to read the entire book the week before the call, while others space it out, reading a little at a time over the course of a month. Tasha and I are figuring out the exact date of the Author Chat, but it will be in the last week and a half of April, giving as much time as possible for books to ship + for everyone to read without feeling rushed (especially with Easter between now and then).