The treasured son of Korean immigrants, Jeon-Gi understandably has a foot in both Korean and American worlds, while also negotiating puberty. In his apartment building in the New York area tenements, he finds his place in the pecking order until that delicate equilibrium is upset and he’s sent away to summer camp. Lee delivers another winner, drawing a brilliant portrait of a boy who doesn’t understand what to make of the embers of cruelty that silently burn within him. That they may or may not have anything to do with a formative experience at camp is almost beside the point.
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