The Orphan Master’s Son
by Adam Johnson (Pulitzer)
2012/443 pages (Kindle)
rating  9 / contemp fiction

Started one time and got really frustrated.  Started over again on 9/20 and it’s working this time.   Pak Jun Do is the young 1st person North Korean protagonist.  He was raised in an orphanage not because he has no living parents, but because his father is  the orphan master and his mother, a singer,  has run away. The famine,  or Arduous March,  occurred between 1994  >>>>MORE>>>>