![]() The novel skips freely around in time, lending it a sense of propulsion and instability that feels entirely intentional. ![]() ![]() The bulk of the book, though, is dedicated to Gyu-ho, the bartender with whom he has a long-term relationship complicated by the narrator’s HIV-positive status. Five years later, after a wounding and sudden breakup, the man gets back in touch with the narrator-raising the possibility that he might finally introduce his mother (whose cancer has returned) to his old flame. In another section, the narrator, now 25, is in the midst of an intense relationship with a man 12 years his senior while juggling caretaking duties for his mother, who is confined to the hospital with uterine cancer. Now in his 30s, the narrator attends Jaehee’s wedding and feels a pang of loss. The two of them, both 20 years old and French majors in college, quickly become confidants, sleeping around with men and swapping stories about their escapades eventually, they move in together. ![]() He meets Jaehee when she catches him kissing a man in a hotel parking lot. ![]() Park,” recounts his relationships: with other men with his ailing, acidic, evangelical Christian mother with his best friend. In a series of long vignettes, the narrator, an unnamed man referred to occasionally as “Mr. A novel, told through relationships, about navigating life as a young gay man in Korea. ![]()
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