Author: P. Carey Reid
Translator: Kyeong-hee Kong
Publisher: Sigongsa
368 pages.
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
A father's love for his dying daughter illuminates this heartrending first
novel. Jim Kaldy, who narrates in a careful, steady voice, tells us at the
beginning that his family's story is not an easy one. Kim and his wife Marsha's
only child, six-year-old Stella, suffers from a lethal, painful, congenital skin
disease that has has left her hideously deformed. Jim quits his job as a
government financial analyst to care for Stella, allowing Marsha to resume her
career. Forced to confront the pain and humiliation his child endures on a daily
basis, Jim takes Stella out of school to teach her at home. Yet just as Stella
begins to blossom under his care, they are faced with a difficult decision about
a skin-graft operation that could alleviate the effects of Stella's disability
but would subject her to risky side effects. Without sentimentality or
melodrama, Reid creates a harrowing yet immensely moving story. The Kaldys'
dilemma is made palpably real, along with their quiet heroism in bearing the
terrible burden, and their mutual love. Drawn in by Reid's unflinching, often
lyrical prose, the reader gets through it too, and emerges humbled by this story
of ordinary people with extraordinary hearts.
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