A Cab Called Reliable

Description:

A new twist on the Asian immigrant experience. Here the Korean father is not a hard working grocer, but a welder who is so lacking in ambition his wife leaves him, taking their son. It is left to their daughter, Ahn Joo Cho, 8, to take on the role of housekeeper, and this is her story. A first novel.

subjects: Fathers and daughters,  Korean Americans,  Korean American families,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  New York Times reviewed,  Korean American women,  Fathers and daughters, fiction