![]() UFR: Did you know from the beginning that this story would become a book? How much of yourself do you see in the narrator, Janie?Ĭhung: I knew in the beginning that I wanted to ![]() It’s about family relationships and obligations and loveĪnd secrets, and the influence of culture and history on all of it. The father is sick, the older sister is asked to find her sister andīring her home. UFR: First off, how would you describe Forgotten Country? What would you say it’s about?Ĭhung: It begins with a Korean American girl’sĭisappearance and estrangement from her family-when the family realizes She is a Granta New Voice, and the assistant fiction editor of Guernica Magazine. She has taught creative writing at The University of Leipzig and Cornell University, and she currently lives in New York City. ![]() Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country, which was published by Riverhead Books in March 2012. ![]()
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I first started this series when Goodreads recommended Scythe back in the beginning of this year. ![]() Last night I finished “The Toll” by Neal Shusterman – the third and last book in the Arc of the Scythe series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim Marlowe and his close chum Frank are just on the edge of being adults, old enough to carry side-arms and about to be sent off to boarding school near the equator but young enough that Jim really, really does not want to leave his pet bouncer Willis behind, particularly since there is some chance that the bouncer’s poorly understood life-cycle will forever part the two. Changes are coming for the colonists, changes that will cast a stark light on the assumptions the humans have about their hosts. ![]() ![]() 1949’s Red Planet takes us to a Mars far more habitable than the real one, an inviting if challenging world whose ancient civilization seems to have little issue sharing Mars with a handful of human colonists from Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the one was seemingly an international issue and the other a domestic one, in reality they were closely linked. Throughout this period the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement were the U.S.’s two main concerns. 2But the “central commitment” alluded to by Rusk changed over the course of those years. 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