Turn The Page – Episode 399D – Maria Dong
From Turn the Page Podcast by Syosset Public Library - Librarians
April 23, 2026 · 36 min
About this episode
Maria Dong discusses her novel AVIARY, exploring themes of identity and suspense within a cultural context.
Maria Dong shares AVIARY, a genre-bending speculative suspense novel about an undocumented woman in Seoul, Hee-Jin, who assumes her dead sister’s identity to escape to America, only to find herself trapped in a sinister art mentorship program with dark secrets rooted in Korean folklore.
People in this episode
Guest: Maria Dong
Topics covered
- speculative fiction
- suspense
- identity
- undocumented immigrants
- Korean folklore
Keywords
- Maria Dong
- AVIARY
- speculative fiction
- suspense
- Korean folklore
- undocumented woman
- art mentorship
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: AVIARY
Places: Seoul, America, Korean
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