Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us
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Pub Date May 4 2027 | Archive Date Apr 30 2027
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Description
*Indie Next nominations due March 1, 2027 and LibraryReads due April 1, 2027*
A young Korean American journalist grasps at status and security through a maze of medical experimentation in scifi-horror thriller Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us.
In near-future, dystopian LA, struggling journalist Lily Han is desperate to save herself from career failure and deportation when the tabloid show Off-Ramp offers an unbelievable proposition. She agrees to undergo extensive cosmetic surgery—more popular than ever, and the subject of unsettling protests by fringe feminist group #AsIs—and chronicle its effects on her life.
Lily’s surgery grants her beauty and influence, but she’s no safer. #AsIs’s activism grows bloodthirsty, and her new connections draw her further into a tangle of experimental technology and chilling malpractice. She can only trust herself—that is, if you can trust someone you no longer recognize.
Marrying psychological and body horror, Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us confronts feminism, patriarchy, identity, and the ethics of survival at any cost.
Advance Praise
“Set in an all-too-believable near-future dystopia, Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us is a riveting and timely novel that takes our society’s obsession with youth and longevity to disturbing logical conclusions. In beautiful, descriptive prose, Chin-Sun Lee probes the tensions between ethics and capitalism, providing no easy answers. I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time.” —E.K. Sathue, author of youthjuice
“Sinister, eerie, and cerebral, Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us is a futuristic gem. Chin-Sun Lee’s deft, nuanced explorations of identity are especially rich. She is definitely an author to watch.” —Sierra Greer, author of Annie Bot
“Propulsive, chilling, and impossible to predict, Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us explores the lengths we go to reinvent ourselves in a capitalist patriarchy that bends women to its will. A novel I’ll never forget. Chin-Sun Lee has masterfully crafted a relentless descent into the darkest night. Don’t forget to breathe.” —Maggie Su, author of Blob
“Chin-Sun Lee’s Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us is an explosive, twisty thriller that filled me with dread. And yet I had a total blast reading it. I fell in step with Lily, the novel’s narrator, a journalist who begins to lose her hard-won objectivity as she enters the world of optimized beauty and surgical perfection. Lily’s work changes her, and it changes the world, and I was rapt as she navigated her loneliness through it all. I grieved—and cheered—as I read its final shocking pages. Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us will stick with me for a long time to come.” —Lindsay Hunter, author of Hot Springs Drive
“Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us is a propulsive, wildly inventive novel about surviving in a body, a city, and a world that keeps asking you to become someone else. Chin-Sun Lee writes with dark, dazzling precision about the terrible things we’ll do to survive. Unsparing, unsettling, and wholly unique.” —Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781951971632 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |