Book Review of Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
Name of book: Native Speaker Author Name: Chang-Rae Lee ISBN: 1-57322-531-2 Publisher: Riverhead Books Type of book: Adult, Korean American, 1960s-1990s, spy, Year it was published: 1995 Summary: Korean American Henry Park is "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, Yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor spy..." or so says hiw fie, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. And now, a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both-and belongs to neither. Characters: Unfortunately I have little to say about the characters. I wasn't endeared to them, nor do I hate them. Henry seems to be confused throughout the book, and I'm still not sure how Leila came back to him and whatnot. Theme: There are two themes that I picked up from reading this book: "Certainly it is n...