What We Kept to Ourselves
A Novel
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2023
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Atria Books (Verlag)
978-1-6680-3461-3 (ISBN)
Atria Books (Verlag)
978-1-6680-3461-3 (ISBN)
lt;b>The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a timely and surprising new novel about a family's search for answers following the disappearance of their mother.
1999: The Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children, Anastasia and Ronald, than ever before. But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever about the stranger's history and possible connections to their mother.
1977: Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her aloof and often-absent husband. America is not turning out the way she had dreamed it to be, and the loneliness and isolation are broken only by a fateful encounter at a bus stop. The unexpected connection spans the decades and echoes into the family's lives in the present as they uncover devastating secrets that put not only everything they thought they knew about their mother but their very lives at risk.
Both a riveting page-turner and moving family story, What We Kept to Ourselves masterfully explores the consequences of secrets between parents and children, husbands and wives. It is the story of one unforgettable family's search for home when all seems lost, and a powerful meditation on identity, migration, and what it means to dream in America.
1999: The Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children, Anastasia and Ronald, than ever before. But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever about the stranger's history and possible connections to their mother.
1977: Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her aloof and often-absent husband. America is not turning out the way she had dreamed it to be, and the loneliness and isolation are broken only by a fateful encounter at a bus stop. The unexpected connection spans the decades and echoes into the family's lives in the present as they uncover devastating secrets that put not only everything they thought they knew about their mother but their very lives at risk.
Both a riveting page-turner and moving family story, What We Kept to Ourselves masterfully explores the consequences of secrets between parents and children, husbands and wives. It is the story of one unforgettable family's search for home when all seems lost, and a powerful meditation on identity, migration, and what it means to dream in America.
Nancy Jooyoun Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of What We Kept to Ourselves and The Last Story of Mina Lee, a Reese’s Book Club pick. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves illuminates the glacial secrets among a family that crackle under a glass lens. Through the brushstrokes of tragedy and grief and mystery, Kim interrogates how a forgotten past bleeds into the choices we make in our everyday lives."-E. J. Koh, author of The Liberators
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Schlagworte | 1970s • 1990s • adult thriller • All Good People Here • American dream • Angie Kim • Ann Napolitano • Ashley Flowers • asian-american • Asian American • ask again yes • bestselling author • Big City • black cake • Celeste Ng • charmaine wilkerson • Club • Coming of Age • cross generational • Daughter • Dear Edward • Diversity • Domestic Suspense • Domestic Thriller • dual narratives • dysfunctional • Ethnicity • Family • Family Business • family secrets • Fiction • Gift • grandparents • Immigrant • Immigrant Experience • investigation • Jean Kwok • Korea • Korean American • Korean food • Koreatown • language barrier • language divide • layne fargo • lisa jewell • little fires everywhere • Los Angeles • Love • megan collins • mina lee • miracle creek • missing woman • mother • Multigenerational • Mystery • nyt bestselling author • other black girl • our missing hearts • Outsider • #ownvoices • ownvoices • page-turner • Pageturner • parent • Race • reeses pick • Reese Witherspoon • Searching for Sylvie Lee • Secrets • smart thriller • Suspense • Tension • the family plot • the last story of mina lee • The Last Thing He Told Me • thriller historical fiction • Twists • unexpected love • we are not like them • white ivy • Women of Color |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6680-3461-1 / 1668034611 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6680-3461-3 / 9781668034613 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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