Drifting House (2012)
“one of those men who faithfully sent money to his family living overseas. The original goose fathers, the term signifying their journey from one country to another, were Korean men who had been drafted or volunteered as mercenary soldiers for the U.S. army in Vietnam, and sent their salaries back to their family. But back then, there had been few jobs and a national landscape of poverty. Gilho was not a goose; he was entirely stationary. He was a successful accountant who did not associate hims...elf with the Vietnam mercenaries, much less the so–called goose fathers reduced to eating ramen for dinner; those men so dishonest they had other women in their wives’ absence, men who collapsed from strokes, unearthed in their homes weeks later by neighbors, men less than men in their solitude. Unlike those fathers, his family’s absence made Gilho even more upright and correct in his behavior. Sex? He had never understood the fuss. And what about Junho, his ten-year-old son, and his daughter, Jinhee, in American private schools, his wife’s language-school tuition that qualified her for a student visa, their living expenses?MoreLess
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