Foreign Student

This “auspicious debut” is “epic in its harrowing accounts of war and intimate in its charged descriptions of the unlikely love affair at its center” (New Yorker).

A young Korean man scarred by war finds unlikely love in the American South in National Book Award–winning author Susan Choi’s acclaimed debut novel.

Tennessee, 1955. When Chuck Ahn arrives in Sewanee to begin his studies at the Universit...