Concerning My Daughter

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary...
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Author: Kim Hye-Jin
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Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin, Kim

Concerning My Daughter

€23,84

Concerning My Daughter

€23,84
Author: Kim Hye-Jin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.Meanwhile, the nursing home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for Jen, an elderly dementia patient who traveled the world as a successful diplomat, chose not to have children, and has no family. Outraged, Green's mother begins to reconsider the unfair consequences of choosing one's own path.With bracing honesty, Kim Hye-jin taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics while unearthing the mechanisms of violence that target LGBTQ communities in traditional societies. Elegantly translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang, Concerning My Daughter shines a light on all facets of familial love and conflict.

Author: Kim Hye-Jin
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781632063496


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 19
Foreword 08/27/2022
Shelf Awareness 09/30/2022

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