Book Launch: This Part is Silent, by SJ Kim

Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, scholar, and daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world.

She writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism.

She considers the silences between generations as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lock-down, and embraces both the possibilities and impossibilities of language.

Long-listed for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, this sensitive memoir is now being published in the UK for the first time.