The Long Season of Rain

The Long Season of Rain

Korea (South) -- Fiction. Family life -- Korea (South) -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Family -- Korea (South) -- Fiction. Family -- Korea (South) -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. Korea (South) -- Juvenile fiction.

This first-person novel is a devastatingly clear-eyed view of societal restrictions & their effects on the young narrator's family in 1960s Seoul. When an orphan boy comes to live with her family, eleven-year-old Junehee begins to realize that the demands placed on Korean women can destroy their lives. Junehee Lee lives in Seoul in a house full of women: three sisters, a busybody grandmother, and, always, everywhere, her mother. Her father spends much of his rtime in America working for the army--or out drinking with friends. When an orphaned boy comes to stay with the Lees, all the carefully balanced conflicts in the family erupt. Filled with closely observed details of Korean life, The Long Season of Rain is an unforgettable coming-of-age saga of great power.

Kim, Helen

Ballantine Books

1996

PZ7 .K55966 Lo

2003.500.2912