The debut novel, Shelter, by Jung Yun is a troubling and complex novel of deep family fault lines and huge secrets, As with other readers, I found that I couldn’t put it down until the denouement was laid out for the reader in a most emotional and intelligent way. It was definitely worth tolerating the least likable characters in the novel to figure out what the effects of what seemed liked standard cultural differences was actually anger, resentment, and lived locked up tight for many years. The end carried the weight of people’s lives and fates in its closing and offered hope, if only for the sake of the child.