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  Drifting House (Paperback) By (author) Krys Lee

  

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  Short Description for Drifting HouseAlternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, this title includes tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 19 January 2012
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780571276189 ISBN 10: 0571276180
  • Sales rank: 146,605

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• Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, Krys Lee's haunting debut story collection "Drifting House" weaves together intricate tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in "A Temporary Marriage" who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped daughter to the makeshift family in "At the Edge of the World" which is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door.