00-00-0000 HICK on the farther side THE HOOK: DISPATCHES FROM THE wintry Leonard Chang Black Heron Pres 290 pp $2395 AFTER READING the first chapter of Dispatches from the wintry Leonard Chang's second novel.
HICK on the farther side THE HOOK: DISPATCHES FROM THE wintry
Leonard Chang
Black Heron Pres 290 pp $2395
AFTER READING the first chapter of Dispatches from the wintry Leonard Chang's second novel, undivided might think it was a brave fictional attempt to examine at the anger directed towards Asians end the eyes of a disgruntled white man. Maybe this is the start of a certain collective empathy across the racial divide, an attempt to consider other points of view.
But the novelty of a white, small-town perspective does not a racial dialogue make. And when Farrel Gorden, a novel Hampshire townie ...
