{"id":44149,"date":"2018-06-26T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44149"},"modified":"2019-04-10T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:26:22","slug":"good-son-jeong-jeong-translated-chi-young-kim-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/good-son-jeong-jeong-translated-chi-young-kim-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong, translated by Chi-Young Kim [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43995\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Good-Son-You-Jeong-Jeong-BookDragon-522x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Good-Son-You-Jeong-Jeong-BookDragon-522x800.jpg 522w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Good-Son-You-Jeong-Jeong-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>The opening sentence \u2013 \u201cThe smell of blood woke me\u201d \u2013 gives way to a young man discovering his mother\u2019s freshly murdered corpse. He\u2019s gone off his epilepsy medications again, and has trouble remembering, but he\u2019s determined to figure out what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the whodunit and howdunit seem obvious. What\u2019s left to solve is the whydunit. Slyly, the manipulations multiply as details of that horrific night are meted out, interspersed with what happened before \u2013 the tragic loss 16 years earlier of the father and older brother, a mother\u2019s failed suicide attempt, a psychiatrist aunt with a shocking diagnosis of a six-year-old, the adoption of a lookalike brother \u2013 and what happens after \u2013 the inevitable growing body count.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is already an international bestseller, and award-winning translator Chi-Young Kim ensures that You-Jeong Jeong is introduced to Anglophone readers with chilling precision, even as the protagonist proves to be a supremely unreliable narrator: \u201cAfter all, being true to life isn\u2019t the only way to tell a story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lauded as South Korea\u2019s leading psychological crime-fiction writer, Jeong performs intricate plotting here in a tale that should both enthrall and repulse stateside thriller seekers, encouraging future Western welcomes for her other murderous bestselling titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Good-Son-YouJeong-Jeong\/pid=9433860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016 (Korea), 2018 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening sentence \u2013 \u201cThe smell of blood woke me\u201d \u2013 gives way to a young man discovering his mother\u2019s freshly murdered corpse. 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