Lee is a brave and insightful storyteller, and her words of pain-and hope-seep into our souls.” - Ed Lin, multiple-award-winning author of David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets into an Ivy League College “Marie Myung-Ok Lee wonderfully recasts Of Mice and Men for a new America. “Hurt You reads like something written by a master’s hand, a powerful and heartbreaking story that resonates with the force of love and legend.” - Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of The Serpent King and In the Wild Light If you’re not swept away by Georgia’s tough and completely honest loyalty, read the book again.” - Chris Crutcher, award-winning and bestselling YA novelist The issues, in their sheer number and intensity, could have been taken over the top by a less accomplished storyteller, but Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s protagonist, Georgia Kim, tells it seamlessly. He begins to question the very assumptions on which his life is built–the so-called American dream, with the abject failure of its healthcare system, patient and neighbors who perpetuate racism, a town flawed with infrastructure, and a history that doesn’t see him in it.“Hurt You is a big, brave story of ‘otherness’ juxtaposed with ‘extreme otherness,’ and friendship under fire. Yungman faces a choice–he must choose to hide his secret from his family and friends or confess and potentially lose all he’s built.
Yungman’s life is thrown into chaos–the hospital abruptly closes, his wife refuses to spend time with him, and his son is busy investing in a struggling health start-up. And one day, a letter arrives that threatens to expose it.
He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all that he knew behind. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath’s General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life.
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