The Foreign Student: A Novel

Set in wartime Korea during the early 1950s, and in the American South in the years immediately following, The Foreign Student brings together two intelligent, original characters -- a Korean student and a rebellious young American woman -- in an affecting story of improbable love and emotional healing. Chang Ahn, called Chuck, has arrived at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with the contents of one suitcase and a working knowledge of English. It is 1955, and he has come…