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Secondhand World

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By Katherine Min
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - (Knopf)
Secondhand World
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A brilliant novel from an exciting new writer. Isadora Myung Hee SohnIsaworships her mother, an exceptional beauty, born in Seoul and sheltered in a harem of sisters inside the wealthy familys compound. Isas father, a scientist and professor, an orphan, is haunted by the war in which he served as a South Korean soldier and by a painful secret that he keeps from his wife. Still mourning the death of Isas younger brother, Stephen, her parents are traditional enough to prize their dead son over their living daughter; to them, Isa only half exists. But unlike many Asian American daughters, Isa is neither meek nor a quiet victim of tradition. Despite her parents success and sophisticationtheyve achieved the American dreamshe repudiates their values, embarks on her own sexual education, and runs away with an albino boy, Hero. At the same time, Isa suspects that despite her mothers strict adherence to Korean traditional values, she is involved with another man, and Isa determines to make the affair known. What begins as a childs unthinking fury at her mother soon leads to more deadly consequences. A daring, haunting, inspired debut.

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58194 words58,194 words
288 pages288 pages
Lexile 990LLexile 990L
Published 2006Published 2006

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