Jackie Chung

Reflections on a murky memory.

A Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes.

A tale of two Korean American cousins. A shy young law student, hungry for a more vivid, risk-taking existence, visits his playboy cousin in New York City. In his quest to emulate his cousin, the law student sheds his old identity and takes a leap into the unknown, where risk, adventure, and a chance at love await. But in a series of surprising twists, his dream of growth and metamorphosis threatens to become a nightmare from which he may never awaken.

The story of three generations of women and the taboos created in the South Asian-American community from mental illness in the family.