The employee comes by with the itemized list of expenses and asks if we’ve picked a sangju, or chief mourner. Por eso choca la cantidad de comentarios horribles que la madre suelta sobre su hija, sobre su nuera o sobre la homosexualidad en general, pero la autora sabe crear bien ese personaje, para que el lector, aún horrorizándose de lo que piensa, pueda entender su circunstancia e ir asistiendo poco a poco al avance y a la apertura de su mente. Concerning my daughter looks at intergenerational conflict, tradition, ageing and to a degree, loneliness in Korean context.

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Someone who looks like my daughter, who could be my daughter, is waving her arms over her head trying to rally support. Son constantes las reflexiones sobre como la sociedad aparta a las personas mayores, considerándolos inservibles, sobre como los hijos olvidan en ocasiones a sus padres, siendo estos, muchas veces, dejados en malas condiciones y sin nadie que los defienda. This comes from the mother’s ingrained inability to see Green’s relationship with her partner Lane as the foundation of her daughter’s family, and by extension, the mother’s own family—and, indeed her desired support in old age.

Things I want to say, must say, cannot say, must not say – I have no confidence in any of these words. And as a mother, she doesn’t want to talk about her adult daughter, who doesn’t have stable employment and is involved in a long-term relationship with a woman. so yes, maybe readers who are more removed from the events described in the narrative, or are not as 'thin-skinned' as I am, will find this to be a more poignant read than I did.

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Một cuốn sách tuy ngắn nhưng vô cùng sâu sắc, nó giúp mình hiểu về cái nhìn của mẹ hơn lúc mình came out với bà, mình đã từng nghĩ rất nông cạn là tại sao mẹ lại phải cố lờ đi như thế, tại sao? Lane embodies nurturing: She has been with Green long enough to have supported Green throughout her father’s final illness. His willingness to laugh at serious matters — genocide against indigenous tribes; the prison at Guantánamo Bay; highway builders' tendency to destroy poor neighborhoods — gives Freeway: La Movie an angry energy that will carry willing readers past their disorientation.

The novel raises questions about autonomy, justice and freedom—and the duty we owe to our loved ones. But gentle, subtle novels are far more common than ones that take the opposite tactic, announcing their difficulty or their defiance from the very first page — a brave strategy, and one that creates a uniquely exciting relationship between author and audience. Pese a que tiene muchos temas principales, que ahora tocaré, creo que el más importante es el que hace relación a la homofobia de la madre hacia la hija, y creo que es el tema que más destaca, no porque sea el único central, porque lo son varios, sino porque es el único que se toca de manera diferente. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home.

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Kim juxtaposes the narrator’s passionate advocacy for the unconventional Jen with Green’s fight for LGBTQ rights after her university colleagues are fired for introducing gay themes into their lectures. Una lectura que toca diversos temas, pero el foco principal está en la idea de aceptación, tanto en el sentido orientación sexual, como sobre la vejez, los cambios, entre otras cosas. No quisiera yo aventurarme demasiado pero, salvando las distancias, tuve una conexión parecida con este libro a la que tuve cuando leí “La vegetariana” de Han Kang.When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. The narrator of this novel is a widowed woman in her late sixties who works as a carer in an old people's home, where she looks after a woman suffering with dementia. Perhaps at a different point in history, such as the time of the mother’s childhood, those in need, early or late in their careers, aging parents and relatives were supported by closely knit families or communities, but in a society of isolated individuals, the holes in the net are much too big to provide protection or security.