In her lustrous novel "The Foreign Student," Susan Choi wrote of the birth pains of a Korean student attempting a life in a Southern college town.
Ms. Choi, a Korean-American, did something larger and more original than ingeniously devise a foreigner experiencing America. She devised America through the experience of the foreigner ?an America seemingly strange, largely because our own eyes hadn't known where to look. It was revelation under black light; not replacing daylight's vision but extending it to show crags we took for hills and torrents we knew as streams.
Reviewed September 12, 2003 @ NYT
