"A fascinating story of a young mixedrace man caught between two cultures, not knowing what to keep and what to leave behind."James McBride, author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery StoreA magnificent (Ha Jin), mesmerizing (James McBride), and magical (Marie MyungOk Lee) fever dream of a novel that interweaves the comingofage of a 1970s KoreanAmerican boy grappling with his identity and the impact of intergenerational trauma.Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insuthe son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Armyspends his days with his half and half friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to dig up a skull in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die.Insus quest takes him and his friends on a sprawling, wild journey into some of South Koreas darkest corners, opening them up to a fantastical world beyond their grasp. Meanwhile, Big Uncle has embraced his solitude and fate, trusting in otherworldly forces Insu cannot access. As he recalls his wartime experiences of betrayal and lost love, Big Uncle attempts to teach his nephew that life is not limited to what we can seeor think we know.Largely autobiographical and sparkling...

Binding: Hardback;384 pages; Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, LLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 770 g; Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 34

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