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A moving and captivating Cathy Park Hong New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world hes worked so hard to build come crumbling down

Dr Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life Every day for the last fifty years he has brushed his teeth slipped on his shoes and headed to Horse Breaths General Hospital where as an obstetrician he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home

This was the life he longed for The socalled American dream He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War forced to leave his family ancestors village and all that he knew behind But his life is built on a lie And one day a letter arrives that threatens to expose it

Yungmans life is thrown into chaosthe hospital abruptly closes his wife refuses to spend time with him and his son is busy investing in a struggling health startup Yungman faces a choicehe must choose to hide his secret from his family and friends or confess and potentially lose all hes built He begins to question the very assumptions on which his life is builtthe socalled American dream with the abject failure of its healthcare system patients and neighbors who perpetuate racism a town flawed with infrastructure and a history that doesnt see him in it

Toggling between the past and the present Korea and America Evening Hero is a soulful melodic rhapsodic novel The New York Times about a man looking back at his life and asking big questions about what is lost and what is gained when immigrants leave home for new shores