American Hwangap
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Word Count
17,500 words, Guess
Page Count
70 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27675653M
- ISBN-139780573697470
- ISBN-100573697477
- OCLC Control Number649651185
- Library of Congress Control Number2013474853
and 1 more
- Amazon0573697477
Classifications
- LCCMLCS 2014/40025 (P)
Description
Steeped in the difficulty of reunification and reconciliation, American Hwangap tells the story of Min Suk Chun, who some 15 years earlier left his family in a West Texas suburb to return to his native Korea. On the occasion of his 60th birthday (hwangap), a milestone signifying the completion of the Eastern Zodiac and a type of rebirth, he returns to his ex-wife and now adult children as they struggle to reconcile their broken past with the mercurial, verbose and often exasperating patriarch now back at the head of the table. Through a tense birthday weekend filled with humor, heartbreak and half-filled expectations, this American hwangap and its aftermath bears a family not quite whole but still somehow transformed, and not quite happy but still somehow beautiful.
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