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Issue: January 1, 2012 Forgotten Country. Chung, Catherine (Author) Mar 2012. 352 p. Riverhead, hardcover, $26.95. (9781594488085). Moving among emotions, from reserved to exuberant and from easy joy all the way to devastating pain and loss, Chung’s superb debut … [Read more...]

The first book I read by Chang-rae Lee was A Gesture Life. I bought it for my father one Christmas, when I was still in college, and I remember that winter vacation my whole family took turns stealing it from each other and sneaking reads while the others searched for it in the … [Read more...]

Forgotten Country Catherine Chung. Riverhead, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59448-808-5 In this beautiful debut novel, sisters Janie and Hannah demonstrate very different reactions to their Korean parents and heritage. The   dutiful Janie has carried the weight of having to … [Read more...]

Letters to Home an essay by Catherine Chung Every family has secrets. Ours was an aunt I'd never met, never even knew existed until one day forty years after she disappeared, she sent us a letter. She was alive, she told us: she'd gotten married, had children, thought of … [Read more...]