Cracks

Horror and myth collide when a Korean American teenager's grief summons something ancient: a water ghost that has been feeding on her family's sorrow for decades.

Dark strands of hair crack the corners of my sight, suspended as always in the air, spidering and floating as if in liquid. Mul-gwishin. Water ghost.

Gracie Russell feels she belongs nowhere. In suburban 1990s Washington, she is constantly at sea—struggling with her biracial identity, her father's violent alcoholism, and her mother'...