{"id":5138,"date":"2005-02-25T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:56:00","slug":"the-good-man-a-novel-by-edward-jae-suk-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-good-man-a-novel-by-edward-jae-suk-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Man: A Novel by Edward Jae-Suk Lee [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/02\/Good-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31065\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/02\/Good-Man.jpg\" alt=\"Good Man\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Undoubtedly, this 29-year-old author can write. His story is a little too convoluted, but it\u2019s well worth the read. Gabriel Guttman (in German, \u2018Gutmann\u2019 \u00a0is literally \u201cgood man\u201d), a grisled Korean War veteran with one good eye, returns to the Montana sheep ranch of his youth, searching for a past he can\u2019t seem to remember. There he finds the Korean woman he rescued as penance for his participation in the No Gun Ri massacre of civilians during the Korean War, her feisty daughter \u2013 and their troubled stories. Somewhere in the tangled mess of their denied, tragic past, these three lost souls struggle to find the truth that will finally set them free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2005-02-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, February 25, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4453\" title=\"Good Man\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/good-man.jpg\" alt=\"Good Man\" width=\"125\" height=\"193\" \/>Undoubtedly, this 29-year-old author can write. His story is a little too convoluted, but it\u2019s well worth the read. Gabriel Guttman (in German, \u2018Gutmann\u2019  is literally \u201cgood man\u201d), a grisled Korean War veteran with one good eye, returns to the Montana sheep ranch of his youth, searching for a past he can\u2019t seem to remember. There he finds the Korean woman he rescued as penance for his participation in the No Gun Ri massacre of civilians during the Korean War, her feisty daughter \u2013 and their troubled stories. Somewhere in the tangled mess of their denied, tragic past, these three lost souls struggle to find the truth that will finally set them free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2005-02-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, February 25, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,38,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,58,3670,10,11,3671,129,39,45],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-korean-american","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-edward-jae-suk-lee","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-good-man","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Good Man: A Novel by Edward Jae-Suk Lee [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-good-man-a-novel-by-edward-jae-suk-lee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Good Man: A Novel by Edward Jae-Suk Lee [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Undoubtedly, this 29-year-old author can write. 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