Native Speaker

by Chang-rae Lee

Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.

Set in

  • Queens · United States
    John Kwang political headquarters
    ★ primary

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