Kim hye jin about my daughter7/3/2023 ![]() Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.Meanwhile, the nursing home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for Jen, an elderly dementia patient who traveled the world as a successful diplomat, chose not to have children, and has no family. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. ![]() Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. ![]() ![]() Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. ![]()
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