![]() ![]() ![]() His son, Einstein, introduces Yungman to his employer, a startup that has just opened a medical center in the Mall of America, where one can get an annual physical and, in the same place, Brazilian waxes. ![]() But when his nonprofit employer closes, Yungman is forced into the nightmarish care-for-cash world. The Evening Hero of the title is Yungman Kwak, a Minnesotan ob-gyn in his seventies who fled North Korea during the war as a child and achieved a successful life in the United States. The fruitless Korean War sent millions of impoverished Koreans looking for better lives abroad, just as a previous generation of Filipinos and a later generation of Vietnamese saw their lives upended. LIKE MANY other novels about the Asian American immigrant experience, Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s newest novel, The Evening Hero (2022), makes the point that Asian lives are often determined by American military action. ![]()
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