30 Apr / Aloft by Chang-rae Lee [in AsianWeek]
Lest I start babbling with incoherent glee about this book, just go out and buy it, borrow it, nab it, and read it – word for word, cover to cover. Lee writes in the voice of Jerry Battle, an Italian American Long Island suburbanite with two hapa children, who in his post-retirement is trying to make sense of a family in crisis.
Tidbit: If you’re interested, here’s an interview I did with Chang-rae Lee for the September/October 2004 issue of The Bloomsbury Review or the June 4, 2004 issue of AsianWeek.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, April 30, 2004
Readers: Adult
Published: 2004
By in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
Tags > Aloft, AsianWeek, BookDragon, Chang-rae Lee, Family, Friendship, Identity, Parent/child relationship, Siblings