A family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center.
Courageous ... Haunting and elegiac, The Stone Home is fearless in its clear-eyed recounting. It asks readers to consider our own secret histories, to allow hard truths to be heard and, in so doing, to never let such barbarity happen again.
As the story progresses, the reader is immersed in thrashings, starvation, destroyed eyes, and psychological torment ... Aims to break down the self-protective distance that forms when one learns about a tragedy, to move the reader beyond thinking and into feeling. In that, it succeeds. But approach this novel with caution: You’ll be right there, suffering alongside the characters on every page.
