Native Speaker
By Chang-rae Lee
(Riverhead Trade, Paperback, 9781573225311, 368pp.)
Publication Date: March 1996
Categories: General
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Description
Korean American Henry Parks is "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, Yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy..". or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. And now, a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both - and belongs to neither.











