The White Book

In this novel, the narrator reflects on the death of her older sister, who died two hours after she was born. Their mother described the infant as "white as a crescent-moon cake." From that description, the narrator considers all the other ways that she has encountered the color white, and the emotions that they trigger in her about the sister that she never met. This capsule description doesn't do the novel justice, of course -- Kang thoroughly plumbs the emotional depths of the topic in moving and fascinating ways.