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Every fragment has a story.
Some things we remember.
Some things we bury.
Some things never leave us.
What lies beneath the surface?
Not everything broken is forgotten.
Some truths are spoken.
Others live between the bones.
When bones are found beneath the floor of the house where June Seo grew up, she is the one asked to name them. June reads bones for a living: what they carried, how they broke, what they survived. She has never read her own family. Now every relative has a version of the past, and every version leaves something out.
Hardcover, $27.00. Out November 26, 2026.
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fragment 01
The house had been quiet for so long that when the floor gave up its secret, no one in my family said a word. My brother looked at his phone. My aunt looked at the window. My mother looked at me, because I am the one who reads bones, and bones were what the workmen had found.
They lay in the dark under the kitchen boards, curled as if asleep, the soil around them gone the color of strong tea. I knelt and did what I always do. I counted. I measured. I let my hands learn the shape of a life before I let myself ask whose it was.
"Well?" my aunt said at last.
I could have told her what I saw. Instead I said what my family has always said.
"It's too early to know."
"I finished it at two in the morning and sat in the dark for a long time."
"Quiet, exact and devastating. Every chapter sets another bone in place."
"A family story told the way bones are read: patiently, piece by piece, until a whole person stands up."
One short letter a month from Daniel: notes on the book, the first chapter before release day, and the things that were left out.
Daniel H. Kwon writes quiet, exacting fiction about families and the things they leave unsaid. Before turning to novels, Daniel spent years listening to other people's stories: on night trains, in hospital waiting rooms, at kitchen tables long after the meal was over. Between Bones grew from one question that would not let go: what do we owe the people we were never told about?
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