Forgotten Country

Forgotten Country

<b><b>A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick<br> A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick</b><br><br> “A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one.”—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of <i>Wild</i></b><br><br> The night before Janie’s sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her. Thus begins a journey that will force her to confront her family’s painful silence, the truth behind her parents’ sudden move to America twenty years earlier, and her own conflicted feelings toward Hannah.<br><br>Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, <i>Forgotten Country</i> is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.