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Availability:In StockContributor:Catherine ChungAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-03-05Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9781594486524ISBN-10:1594486522UPC:9781594486524Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB072CSG1
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"A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one."--Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild

The night before Janie's sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her. Thus begins a journey that will force her to confront her family's painful silence, the truth behind her parents' sudden move to America twenty years earlier, and her own conflicted feelings toward Hannah.

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9781594486524ISBN-10:1594486522UPC:9781594486524Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB072CSG1
Catherine Chung was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan. She studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and received her MFA from Cornell. She is one of Granta's New Voices, and lives in New York City.
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

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