American Han : a novel / by Lisa Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Lisa (Novelist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean Americans--Fiction.

Korean Americans.

Children of immigrants--Fiction.

Children of immigrants.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

American Dream--Fiction.

American Dream.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill ; 2026.

New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company, 2026.

Summary:

"Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents proud. Jane went on to law school. Kevin came close to becoming a professional tennis player. But where they started is nowhere near where they have ended up: Jane has stopped going to her law school classes, and Kevin, now a policeman, has become increasingly distant. Their parents, each on their own path toward the elusive American Dream (their mother hell-bent on having the perfect house and the perfect family, their father obsessed with working his way up from one successful business to the next), don't want to see the family unraveling. When Kevin goes missing, no one recognizes his absence as the warning sign it is until it erupts, forcing them all to come to terms with their past and present selves in a country that isn't all it promised it would be."--Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781643757254

1643757253

OCLC:

1570602783