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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Penny J. Johnson
Aug 31, 2019
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Three Stars

The Orphan Master's Son is a challenging read in structure and content. It is difficult even at the end of the book to be fully certain what is truth and what is a lie. Perhaps that is the point of this book set in North Korea. In such a regime, morality, identity, and destiny are elusive. Had I not been reading this book for a book club, I probably would have stopped reading it. This was compounded by a recent watching of the mini-series Chernobyl. What disturbed me most was not the content, but the comparisons I could draw between these two countries and the political shift in the United States. As hard as it was to read this book and watch this mini-series, I learned we do not want to participate in history repeating itself.

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