{"product_id":"the-foreign-student-9780060929275","title":"The Foreign Student","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This wonderful hybrid of a novel--a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgrounds, with such brilliant wit and insight? \u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e stirs up great and lovely emotions.\" -- Francisco Goldman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ordinary Seaman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl's sexual awakening and a young man's nightmarish memories of war, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoi, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSusan Choi was born in Indiana and grew up in Texas. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes \u0026amp; Noble. With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of fiction entitled \u003cem\u003eWonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523380023570,"sku":"9780060929275","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58a8d90e-b700-4871-9502-d7de645d5fc7.jpg?v=1731146242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-foreign-student-9780060929275","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}