(Guest post by Caroline Kim)

I came across Mariko Nagai’s Georgic: Stories by mistake. During the time I volunteered at Hyphen Magazine, it got sent to me, the fiction editor, instead of to its rightful recipient, the book reviews editor. I had often watched in envy as she received a pile of books at our bimonthly meetings, so when I got my own slim, brown package, I did not hand it over to her right away. I took it home, opened it to the first story, read the beginning paragraphs, and immediately emailed her to ask if I could write a review of it.

Talk about the right book at the right time.