Marie myung ok lee the evening hero5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I struggled most with the contemporary timeline in The Evening Hero, in which Horse Breath’s General Hospital is shut down due to financial difficulties and Yungman is unmoored from work for the first time in five decades. The first story is a clumsy attempt at satire and the second is a crash course in the history of the Korean War, and they mesh about as well as oil and water-until the closing chapter brings them together in a way I found unexpectedly elegant and deeply moving. Yungman Kwak, who has worked at Horse Breath’s General Hospital in Minnesota for fifty years after immigrating to America the second follows Yungman during his childhood in Korea. ![]() The Evening Hero oscillates between two stories, two time periods: the first follows Dr. ![]() I received an ARC of The Evening Hero from Simon & Schuster in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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