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Simple Heart: A Novel

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A Best Book of the Year So Far by The New Yorker

In this moving exploration of dual identities reminiscent of Past Lives, a writer’s pregnancy raises questions about her own childhood abandonment.


Nana, a Korean-born playwright, was adopted as a child and raised in France by her adoptive parents. Pregnant with the child of her ex-boyfriend, Nana receives a request from a Korean filmmaker who wishes to make a documentary about her life. Following a sudden compulsion to learn more about her ro...