Book 1996
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- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Korean Americans
- Aliens
- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Individuality
- Spy stories
- Fiction, general
- Fiction, thrillers, espionage
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.