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A Gesture Life
Chang Rae Lee. Riverhead Books: 2000 (paperback). ISBN: 1573221465. 356 pages.
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Lee's debut novel, Native Speaker, won five major literary awards and
international acclaim for its author. And his second novel proves that he's no one-hit wonder. World War II veteran and
retired pharmacist Doc Hata is enjoying his golden years with apparent comfort and ease in his adopted home, a quiet
suburban town in New York. The good people of Bedley Run have made this gentle, wise Japanese/Korean immigrant an accepted
member of the community, and Doc Hata's life seems to flow as smoothly as his daily laps in his peaceful backyard pool.
Yet the order and routine of Doc's life belie the terrible chaos that has left him alone in the world. Many years ago,
his adopted daughter Sunny has vanished without an address. Many more years ago, while he served in the war as a medic
for the Japanese army, he fell in love with a Korean comfort woman. And now, Doc must finally confront the less than
orderly events that have shaped the dignified man his neighbors admire, but which have also rendered him incapable of
accepting the messy, confusing demands of true human love.
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