![]() ![]() At the start of the novel, Tee's uncle has just committed suicide and Tee has fled to Prague, wondering what his place in the world really is. Set shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center, 'The Hundred Year Flood' is the story of Tee, who was born in Korea and adopted by an American couple. 'The Hundred Year Flood' falls into this final group. The ones that start off slow-burning, and end up being an intense experience that leave me ready to start reading all over again. Some, like 'Pride and Prejudice', never actually get me fired up, and my interest dwindles lower and lower with every page.Īnd then you get the ones in between. Set shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center, 'The Hundred Year Flood' Some novels grab me just as soon as I start to read them, and never let go. ![]() Some, like 'Pride and Prejudice', never actually get me fired up, and my interest dwindles lower and lower with every page. Some novels grab me just as soon as I start to read them, and never let go. In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, the Good Men Project’s Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood.more As the flood slowly makes its way into the old city, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts. His life intertwines with Pavel, a painter famous for revolution Katka, his equally alluring wife and Pavel's partner-a giant of a man with an American name. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. ![]()
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