Books like Drifting house by Krys Lee
Krys Lee’s debut short‑story collection, *Drifting House*, spans from post‑war Korea to contemporary United States, portraying the lives of immigrants torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities of their present. The title story follows children escaping famine in North Korea who must make unthinkable sacrifices for survival. Other tales set in America depict the unmoored existence of Korean immigrants in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, such as an abandoned wife’s sham marriage in search of her kidnapped daughter in “A Temporary Marriage,” and a fractured makeshift family in “At the Edge of the World,” disturbed by a shaman from the old country who moves in next door.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Krys Lee
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