The Prize-Winning International Bestseller 'I can't help but be
moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other,
looking after one another, and raising their voices against the
prejudice and criticism they are subject to.' Cho Nam-joo, author
of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 When a mother allows her thirty-something
daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many
mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and,
even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a
family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow,
her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her
home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having
centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter's
definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughter's
involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues
from the university where she works is similarly strange to her.
And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower
her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no
family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose
not to have children, Green's mother cannot accept it. Why should
not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth
nothing at all? In Concerning My Daughter, translated from Korean
by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on
ageing, death, and isolation, to offer finally a paean to love in
all its forms.
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