“A ground-breaking repatriation of overseas adopted voice
from within Seoul’s dizzying center, Fugitive
Visions rewrites myths of homecoming from both sides of the Pacific through
a lyrical and perceptive music of love, community, family, and international
politics. This is a visionary narrative that charts forbidden, fragmented
geographies of desire where Jeong Trenka's uncanny ability to name the flux
sliding among bodies, borders, and languages strikes perfect pitch. With such
mastery, readers will find that her second book powerfully reveals the global
ironies affecting their most difficult questions about home.”
—JENNIFER KWON DOBBS,author
of Paper Pavilion
“Trenka’s fugitive visions are elusive,
peripatetic, and disjunctive, and demand new ways of seeing, hearing, and
knowing, but they are also generous, compassionate, and ironic, rewarding us
with moving evocations of the adversities and absurdities that confront people
out of joint and out of place in the contemporary global moment.”
—ELEANA KIM, scholar of Korean
and transnational adoption
“Fugitive Visions
offers a searing, intimate portrait of an artist's return to her native land.
Trenka opens a door for readers into the sharply contoured sorrows and
disorientations of diaspora—the bittersweet duality of knowing the fruits of
the land with one's body but still having the language lie uneasy and
rebellious on the foreign-trained tongue.”
—SUNG YUNG SHIN, author of Skirt Full of Black
“[A] fiery memoir…. I admire the ferocity of this book.”
