Thursday, August 16, 2018

Kathy recommends "Forgotten Country"

From the book jacket: “Catherine Chung’s unforgettable debut is a work of enormous talent and heart. A riveting, brutal portrait of  two sisters in crisis, the book examines the unspoken complexities of familial love and forgiveness, loyalty and betrayal, and renders an indelible haunting image of Korea.” This was a wonderful story. The sisters are trying to finish their educations, heal old family wounds, be a help to their mother while the father is in the final stages of cancer all while returning to Korea after being raised in the US.  They have all the problems of feeling like they fit in the United States and then in Korea as well.

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