His mother trafficks in everything, skilled in manipulating the black market to support her family. In this haunting novel he explores the coming-of-age of an Amerasian in Korea, torn between his mother's world - haunted by ghosts, fox demons, and the specter of Japanese occupations - and his father's transplanted America.Young Insu grows up in the chaotic streets of Pupyong, a district in the city of Inchon, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's historic invasion. The New YorkerHeinz Insu Fenkl is the son of a German-American soldier who married a Korean woman when he was stationed near Seoul. This beautiful and haunting story of an Amerasian's search for his true identity affords an intimate look at a volatile, rarely glimpsed landscape.
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