Lessons in Attention

By Jimin Kang

Jimin Kang's stunning debut novel about grief, faith, and what it means to belong to a place and other people

When Toby Burton, an Oxford-born philosophy student, goes missing on a research trip in Brazil, his friend Lua Oliveira--a Brazilian translator recently moved to England from America--is forced to confront her involvement in his disappearance.

As Lua's Korean American ex-boyfriend Elias arrives in Oxford to support the search, Lua begrudgingly enlists the help not only of the local Quaker community but her estranged mother, a retired diplomat-turned-evangelical Christian in S o Paulo.

Lessons in Attention explores themes of faith, belonging, translation, and the meaning of attention, raising the question of how thoroughly we know the people we love--if we choose to see them fully at all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163893519X
• ISBN13: 9781638935193
• Release Date: June 2027
• Publisher: Tin House
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.