Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown nowfuture of the human species an underworld museum of births deaths evolutions and extinctions.Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability violence and responsibility in The Wet Hex.amp160Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents Ovids Metamorphosesamp160Christopher Columbusamp8217s journals and traditional Korean burial rituals Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity heaven and hell in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism The Wet Hexamp160layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenthcentury imagery of the sublime over the present conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.