Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her. Thus begins 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. 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.
“A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one.”-Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild Synopsis: A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick Download or stream Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung, Emily Woo Zeller for free on hoopla.
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