Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories - Carol Roh Spaulding

Descriere Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories - Carol Roh Spaulding

\nThis collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. Linked stories, or stories that form a story cycle, are a common book-length form seen in Asian American literature that accommodates multiple perspectives across generations and locations. Through this story cycle, patterns emergeas cultural identity and individuality, often in tension with one another, shape choices and outcomes. \n \nWith these stories, Carol Roh Spauldingcharts shifting definitions of Americanness across time through the arc of a family narrative. She also explores desire and belonging as articulated, in turns, by the mother, father, granddaughter, great-grandson, and even a ghost child who died after a tragic accident. But these linked stories center on the life experiences of Gracie Song. They follow her from girlhood to young motherhood, through her children's teenage years, and finally to her elderly solitude, when to her great astonishment she finds romance with a younger man and reconciliation with an estranged daughter--both unexpected gifts of later life.\n

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University Of Georgia Press

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ENSTK

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9780820365268

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1

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