This complicates Hye-jin’s portrait of a deeply homophobic mother, whose opinions are shaped by a distorted kind of love and far-reaching fear: “It breaks my heart. She fears that without a traditional life – a husband and children – her beloved daughter will not only end up alone, but unhappy and penniless. The widowed mother is terrified by what she witnesses in her job as a carer for the elderly.
Hye-jin’s close first-person narration mines the empathy of the mother’s position: her troubled state, her inner conflict, her traditional views that do not fit within the changing world around her. My daughter is not that kind of person.”Īlthough the novel has the potential to lean into clichés, the viewpoint makes room for complication. Words come to me so violently, without warning, before Lane can say another word, I quickly manage to correct her.
“Gay? The word rushes into my head and shoots through without permission.
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