This collection of eight stories―cynical and sympathetic by turns―represents the author's attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The t...

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This collection of eight stories―cynical and sympathetic by turns―represents the author's attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mother's busy day playing numerous roles―ashamed, fearless, or humble―depending on which member of her family she's tending to. In "The Privacy of My Father," a daughter tracks her father to Hong Kong in order to spy on what she thinks is an illicit affair. All in all, says Seo Hajin, family means deception--but these masks aren't so easily removed.

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