Fiction

Don Lee is the author of the story collections The Partition (Akashic, 2022) and Yellow, as well as four novels, The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, Country of Origin, and Lonesome Lies Before Us. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, the writer Jane Delury, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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A Story

by Don Lee

When the call came from my brother, I wasn’t the least bit surprised. The only wonder was that they’d lasted this long, into the dog days of August. But now my parents had decided to close their restaurant for good, my brother told me, and they wanted me—their fugitive daughter—to come home to Missouri to help them shut it down.

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