![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been revised so much, Mike Szczerban, an early editor, noted that the tone is the same, but almost all the parts have been replaced. “And thus, has had several seeds because it has, like the Argonaut, been rewritten from scratch several times. “The novel has taken eighteen years-yikes!” she told me. The Evening Hero draws upon Lee’s own family background: her father was born in Pyongyang, and her mother in Bukcheong, both now in North Korea. That was the case with Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s The Evening Hero, a revelatory novel that hinges upon the personal upheavals that accompanied the aftermath of the Korean War in the 1950s and the immigration of a physician to the US with his family. During that process, the novel can change form based on unanticipated outside events. ![]()
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