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Reviewed on May 1, 2019 | Fiction
Chung's second novel (after Forgotten Country) presents a unique take on mathematics, a topic the author once dabbled in, as protagonist Katherine fights to establish herself as a mathematician in the 1960s while pursuing her graduate degree at MIT. Katherine's first-person account begins innocuously as she narrates her life as the biracial only child to a Chinese immigrant mother and a Caucasian American war hero father. Life gets challenging wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More