Katherine, commanding and resolute, begins marshaling Chuck on his round of obligations, and they form a devoted, if cautious, friendship. The two meet on his first morning in town, and they sense an immediate, strange affinity. Neither student nor faculty, she lives in Sewanee, somewhat isolated in her family’s onetime summer house. In many ways, Katherine is as much an outsider as he is. But it is Katherine Monroe, alone among the members of the sleepy college community, who becomes the private center of Chuck’s attention. A charismatic professor of English, Charles Addison, also takes a particular interest in Chuck. Guarded and reserved, Chuck is slow to befriend the American students, with the exception of Crane, a boisterous, wealthy dormitory mate who sets aside his own parochial opinions to cultivate a friendship with this intriguing Korean. It is 1955, and he has come to escape nightmarish memories of his native Korea. Chang Ahn, called Chuck, has arrived at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with the contents of one suitcase and a working knowledge of English. Set in wartime Korea during the early 1950s, and in the American South in the years immediately following, The Foreign Student brings together two intelligent, original charactersa Korean student and a rebellious young American womanin an affecting story of improbable love and emotional healing.
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