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What are the boundaries of a family, and who gets to define them? In 1964, during an era of heightened racial tensions, Catherine and Jonathan adopt an infant girl from Korea. This unconventional choice brings disapproval from Catherine’s family of origin, which creates a fierce bond between her and her daughter.

Narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine, her daughter Min, and Min’s best friend Laura, Scissors, Paper, Stone spans twenty years of love, loss, and the complex reality of female relationships. By 1985, Catherine is living an independent yet risk-free life, Laura is at college seeking a satisfactory boyfriend, and Min is a massage therapist who has come out as a lesbian and is learning to embrace her Korean heritage. After Min and Laura take a summer road trip together, the shifts in their friendship force all three women to examine the assumptions they’ve been living by and to make choices about the roles they want to play in each other’s lives.

Available April 16th, 2018