![]() ![]() As tensions rise between the mother and daughter, so too do they rise at the facility and at Green’s university. At a facility for elderly people, she’s assigned to care for a former activist with dementia. She escapes her home life to focuses on work. When Green brings “that girl,” Lane, with her, her mother is horrified. ![]() Unable to refuse when her child asks for help, however, she offers to let Green move back in with her. Disappointed and in denial, her mother vowed she’d had enough. Green became a university lecturer but kept asking for money and was always around that girl. But when her daughter, Green, decided to move out, she threw it all back into her mother’s face. An elder care worker struggles with her daughter’s choices in Kim Hye-jin’s moving novel Concerning My Daughter.Ī mother raises her child, instills good values, and models appropriate behavior: for the novel’s unnamed narrator, this has always been the way. ![]()
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