The Long Season of Rain

This story takes place in Korea and centers on Junghee, an 11-year-old girl and her family, which includes three sisters, her mother, her father, a grandmother and, eventually, a boy who has become an orphan.

Pyungsoo, the orphan, loses his family in a weather-related catastrophe and moves in with Junghee and her family. There's a lot of interesting snippets of Korean culture in the novel, but mostly it's the story of a family that's sort of dysfunctional and how it tries to deal with everyday things.

The father and mother don't get along; Chagnhee, the oldest sister, is bossy and nasty to Junghee. The father doesn't want Pyungsoo in the family, but the mother sort of does. The grandmother finally solves the “problem” on her own.

It's an ok novel, but for some reason it just didn't “grab” my interest that much.


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