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Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Concerning My Daughter about?
Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.Meanwhile, the nursing home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for Jen, an elderly...
Who reads Concerning My Daughter?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kim Hye-jin
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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