Janie’s first person narrative is beautifully communicated and deeply observed, full of intrigue and mystery. Janie knows from family lore that every generation in her family has experienced the loss of a sister, but she also learns that the resulting sense of loss and hard consequences are the same, even when disappearance is voluntary.įorgotten Country tells many stories – that of a family caught between the traditions of their Korean heritage and the demands of fitting into a new country, painful secrets that are kept to preserve the family peace, children choosing between pleasing their parents and following their own paths, and sibling love turned to sibling rivalry. When Janie’s sister Hannah disappears, Janie is the one tasked with finding Hannah and bringing her home, jeopardizing her degree in the process. Janie is reluctant to indulge (what she feels) her sister’s selfishness, but since their parents are moving back to Korea to pursue treatment for their father’s terminal cancer, she feels as though she must at least go through the motions of honoring their request. 29.Janie is a mathematics PhD candidate, floundering in a discipline that doesn’t come naturally to her so that she can bond with her father by following in his footsteps. Weaving Korean folklore with a modern narrative of immigration and identity, FORGOTTEN COUNTRY is a gripping story of a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another. 9780349144054 Forgotten Country 29.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary 'A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one' Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild It is the start of a journey that will force her to confront her family's painful silence, the truth behind her parents' sudden move to America twenty years earlier, and her own conflicted feelings toward Hannah.
Years later, when Hannah cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her.
'A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one' Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild It is the start of a journey that will force her to c. The night before Janie's sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe.
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