{"id":46494,"date":"2020-02-25T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46494"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:35:47","slug":"frankly-in-love-by-david-yoon-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/frankly-in-love-by-david-yoon-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankly in Love by David Yoon [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46502\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/Frankly-in-Love-David-Yoon-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/Frankly-in-Love-David-Yoon-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/Frankly-in-Love-David-Yoon-BookDragon.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/>Frank Li witnessed his older sister be perfect: she got into Harvard, then Harvard Law, then graduated into an enviably lucrative career. For their Korean immigrant parents, Hanna could do no wrong \u2013 until she did: She fell in love with a non-Korean &#8230; and disappeared from the family.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Frank is, well, frankly in love<em> with another non-Korean<\/em>, he\u2019s gonna avoid getting disowned with the help of family friend Joy Song \u2013 who\u2019s also hiding a non-Korean sweetheart. When their ruse turns real, true love proves more complicated than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly cast for his shared Korean heritage, Atlanta-born Korean American actor Raymond J. Lee is, for most of the 10 hours, an energetically convincing cipher for Frank and his family and friends. Ancestry, however, most definitely doesn\u2019t guarantee fluency. David Yoon chooses not to translate an extensive heated argument, conducted (naturally) in their native Korean, between Frank\u2019s and Joy\u2019s fathers; on the page, Yoon uses only <em>hangul<\/em> (Korean characters) to record their angry exchange. Lee\u2019s halting recitation, alas, reveals his uncomfortable literacy, a regrettable disappointment to listeners expecting and deserving authenticity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Frankly-in-Love-\/pid=9726355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, February 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Li witnessed his older sister be perfect: she got into Harvard, then Harvard Law, then graduated into an enviably lucrative career. 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