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Drifting House (2012)

by Krys Lee(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670023256 (ISBN13: 9780670023257)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I feel bad giving this book two stars. For its ambition and scope, it deserves more, but if I'm honest I have to say the stories became repetitive after a while (if the plots were to be summarized into a couple sentences), and that for this reader at least, the voice and tone of a couple stories felt off. However, again, because of its scope of human experience and perspectives, it is worth a revisit and deep thought. In spite of the issues I personally felt it had, it was never boring, and I found myself looking for the next story after I turned the last page, if only to see where we were going next and how the by-then-familiar storyline would be retold.
review 2: With both pinpoint focus and a large communal scope, the stories in this collection flash upon al... morel aspects of the contemporary Korean experience--emigrating, being left behind, prosperity and poverty, crossings and the clash of the contemporary against the traditional. The stories can be subtle, like "At the Edge of the World" in which a North Korean father tries to adjust to a new life and a new family in LA. Or there can be a tour-de-force feel, as is found in "Beautiful Women," which is sweeping in its portraits of the fates of vulnerable women in Korea. But this isn't a book about "Korean-ness." Behind all these stories is the vision of a serious literary artist, dealing with universal notions of alienation, dislocation and abandonment. But there's connection and self-fulfillment, too, as is found by the narrator of "Goose Father." This is the opposite of escapist reading--it takes you to a new place, challenges you and then rewards your efforts. less

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