Book description
Jung Yun's O Beautiful is a "mesmerizing and timely" (New York Times) novel about a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.
Elinor Hanson is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives…
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The story takes places in Bakkon North Dakota during the oil boom. The protagonist, Elinor Hanson, a product of an overbearing father and a Korean mother who met during the war, is sent as a journalist to report on the landscape of change of her hometown. Armed with notes from her mentor/lover, to write a piece, Elinor is torn. There are many twists and turns. What story should she write? The oil boom changed Bakkon and what is the story Elinor wants to tell? A part of the country I never knew, the struggles, the conflicts, and challenges.
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