Forgotten Country
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594486524 (1594486522)
Publish date: March 5th 2013
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Family,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia
Forgotten Country blew me away. I felt the emotions of the lead character Janie and her experiences.
A story of an immigrant family from South Korea to Michigan and back again. Lots of family anguish, but an excellent look of being outsiders in another land. Janie, who is the narrator of the novel, is a very sympathetic character, caught up in a storm of rivalry, jealousy and family secret that str...
Janie and her family are estranged from everything that matters, estranged from their country of origin, estranged from their new home, estranged from their extended family, estranged from each other. Catherine Chung takes a look at the pain of estrangement and the desperate ways people try to bridg...
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