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Janie and Hannah had a tough relationship, not unlike most sisters, but theirs focused more so on the lack of communication than anything else.

There were many criss-crossing relationships that were built on a lack of communication and abundance of resentful silence that allowed for hatred and disappointment to grow and fester.

The first is the theme of resentment - between Janie and Hannah, between their mother and father, between their father and his sister, so on and so forth. The novel had a lot of different themes and symbols, almost too many to list, so I’m going to stick to some of the main ideas I found throughout the novel. This week’s novel was Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung, centering around a Korean-American family in the midst of a familial crisis: the youngest daughter, Haejin (Hannah) has disappeared without a trace, and it is up to Jeehyun (Janie) to find her before it is too late.