Concerning My Daughter

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As Green continues her protests, the mother makes a mad plan to rescue Jen from the distant dementia center, to which she has been discarded. His willingness to laugh at serious matters — genocide against indigenous tribes; the prison at Guantánamo Bay; highway builders' tendency to destroy poor neighborhoods — gives Freeway: La Movie an angry energy that will carry willing readers past their disorientation. Family oriented novels is some of my favorites to read and I was sure this was going to be at parts intense and bit emotional and it definitely delivered. In this novella, Kim Hye-Jin gives us the perspective of a homophobic Korean mother who discriminates against her thirtysomething lesbian daughter, accusing her kid's girlfriend, portrayed as a loyal and loving partner, of ruining her life. The expectations and ambitions, possibilities and hopes concerning my daughter - they still remain and torment me no matter how hard I work to get rid of them.

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The author could have made us understand her neglectful living conditions without lingering on scenes detailing these things. Concerning My Daughter tells the story of a mother and widow, who begrudgingly allows her thirty-something daughter to move in with her. Sobre mi hija” es un libro breve en tamaño pero enorme en profundidad, uno de esos en los que se puede subrayar cada frase, cada palabra, que logra hablar sobre muchísimos temas, todos ellos entrelazados, y lo hace con tanto acierto que consigue agitar irremediablemente al lector. Of course, Lage also mocks his readers, if only by defying our idea that narratives should make sense. El retrato que mi Kim Hye-jin hace de su protagonista, de la hija de esta y del choque que ambas tienen, transmite verdad por todas partes.

Picador has triumphed in a multi-publisher auction forKim Hye-jin’s Korean bestseller Concerning My Daughter. First published in South Korea in 2017 as 딸에 대하여 ("About My Daughter"), Kim Hye-jin’s award-winning novel’s translated here by Jamie Chang. Still, Green and Lane breathe life back into the house with their delicious home-cooked meals, bustling gatherings of friends, and late-night conversations. Their relationship’s blighted by the mother’s inability to comprehend what her daughter, Green, wants from life and why she’s decided to live openly as a lesbian with her partner Lane.

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When her daughter arrives with her girlfriend, their relationship is one that her mother cannot accept.As the mother’s involvement with Jen and Green increases, her physical condition deteriorates as the weather continues to intensify. Award-winning Korean novelist Kim Hye-jin’s Concerning My Daughter is a clear-eyed character study of the fraught relations among biological and found families alike…. The employee comes by with the itemized list of expenses and asks if we’ve picked a sangju, or chief mourner. The author never condemns the mother for her lack of knowledge or her unwillingness to understand her daughter’s sexuality. I think I would have found this to be a more compelling story if the narrative had focused exclusively on the mother-daughter relationship but neither of these characters struck me as particularly fleshed out.