Forgotten Country
by Catherine Chung
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Pub Date Mar 01 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Penguin Group (USA) | Riverhead USA
Description
generation, so Janie is charged with keeping Hannah safe. As time
passes, Janie hears more stories, while facts remain unspoken. Her
father tells tales about numbers, and in his stories everything works
out. In her mother's stories, deer explode in fields, frogs bury their
loved ones in the ocean, and girls jump from cliffs and fall like
flowers into the sea. Within all these stories are warnings.
Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie embarks on a mission to find her sister and finally uncover the truth beneath her family's silence. To do so, she must confront their history, the reason for her parents' sudden move to America twenty years earlier, and ultimately her conflicted feelings toward her sister and her own role in the betrayal behind their estrangement.
Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781594488085 |
| PRICE | $26.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 352 |
