A comic, thoughtful examination of viral culture through the lens of a technologically out-of-touch, middle-aged protagonist Casts a wide satirical net on an era where social media can amplify a gaffe into a full-on scandal in a matter of minutes Highlights the way social media can steer conversations for good and for ill Similar to classics of the “absent-minded professor” narrative, with nods to Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, and Mordecai Richler Author's previous book, Sad Peninsula was...
A Canadian ex-pat and a Korean former «comfort woman,» each scarred by their pasts, seek redemption. Two separate lives become connected in South Korea: traumatized former Korean «comfort woman» Eun-young, who struggles with her past of rape and violence; and Michael, a troubled young Canadian arriving in Korea to teach ESL, whose principles and humanity are tested by Seoul’s seedy expatriate underbelly. A world away and two generations apart, their lives collide through the fiery Jin, who...
