a story that will take you on a roller coaster journey
Frankly in Love is a story about identity, family and love. There's no shortage of things to love about Frankly in Love and Frank Li. Whether it's his racist parents, the pressures they put on him to find a Korean American girl, his relationship to his disowned sister, his quest for a love, and his own relationship to his Korean American identity. But even everything I've mentioned before is even more complicated than it appears. And that's the immense joy of Frankly in Love - that Yoon tackles these difficult topics with breadth, curiosity, empathy, and nuance.
What starts out as a story about Frank's plan to pursue the girl he loves without disappointing his parents and free to spend as much time with them as he wants, turns into a story that talks about sacrifice, expectations, and questions of identity. It's about the sacrifices his parents have made - and the challenges they face. The expectations his parents have for him, and also the ones he has in response. And how he feels about his identity as a Korean American when immersed with other (Korean) (Americans).
What starts out as a story about Frank's plan to pursue the girl he loves without disappointing his parents and free to spend as much time with them as he wants, turns into a story that talks about sacrifice, expectations, and questions of identity. It's about the sacrifices his parents have made - and the challenges they face. The expectations his parents have for him, and also the ones he has in response. And how he feels about his identity as a Korean American when immersed with other (Korean) (Americans).