He grows up in Korea marked by war and suffering, one he escapes as soon as he can, leaving behind the brother who made his education possible. Over the course of the novel, the story of Yungman’s extraordinary life emerges. To complicate matters, his aspirationally-named son, Einstein Albert Schweitzer Nobel Kwak, works for this conglomerate-another point of generational tension in this immigrant family. In the opening pages, Yungman learns that his hospital is being shut down by the new owner, a medical conglomerate. Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s sweeping and ambitious novel, The Evening Hero (Simon & Schuster), tells the story of Yungman Kwak, the respected-and only-OB-GYN in Horse’s Breath, Minnesota.
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