Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora.
Toggling between the past and the present, Korea and America, Evening Hero is a sweeping, moving, darkly comic novel about a man looking back at his life and asking big questions about what is lost and what is gained when immigrants leave home for new shores.A novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling Ru Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award Finalist of the New Academy Prize in Literature Finalist Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the Prix du Grand Public-Salon du livre de Montréal Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Winner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. He begins to question the very assumptions on which his life is built-the so-called American dream, with the abject failure of its healthcare system, patient and neighbors who perpetuate racism, a town flawed with infrastructure, and a history that doesn’t see him in it. Yungman faces a choice-he must choose to hide his secret from his family and friends or confess and potentially lose all he’s built. Yungman’s life is thrown into chaos-the hospital abruptly closes, his wife refuses to spend time with him, and his son is busy investing in a struggling health start-up. And one day, a letter arrives that threatens to expose it. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all that he knew behind. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath’s General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to build come crumbling down.ĭr.
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