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About this book

Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.

Subjects

  • aliens
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, thrillers, espionage
  • individuality
  • korean americans
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • noncitizens
  • private investigators
  • spy stories