Synopsis:

Short story in literary journal.

Book Excerpt:

Miss Lloyd’s Beautiful Things

In the hottest part of July, when I saw my parents in the parked Chevy talking with the windows rolled up, I realized two things: that I had never seen them argue before and had just discovered the reason why. I couldn’t see their features, but through the glare of the front windshield my mother’s hands fluttered like moths, uncharac­ter­isti­cally animated. As the only boy in a Korean household I had been charged from birth with the future duty of caring for my parents. My mother reminded me of this often, in a tone that showed pride and affection, so I didn’t mind the responsibility. Not only had it set me apart from my sisters, it had made me alert to a number of terse silences between my parents. They talked to each other plenty and yelled at us occasionally, but I couldn’t recall a single time in all my fourteen years when they had ever raised their voices at each other. …

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Topics/Categories:

Adultery, Asian American, Assimilation, Baseball, cultural identity, Family, Fathers and Sons, Immigrant Experience, korean american, washington dc

Genre:

Asian-American Literature, Korean - Korean-American Literature

Type of Work:

Short Stories

Publishers:

Montgomery College

Original Publish Date:

2005-12-31

ISBNs:

ISSN 10073-1989

Formats:

Paperback, literary journal