Book Review: A Map Of Betrayal
A Deep Dive into the Complicated Lives Of Lilian and Gary Chang: My Review of Ha Jin's A Map of Betrayal Ha Jin's novel A Map of Betrayal leaves me wondering just how much do we really know the people in our daily lives? At an early age most of us are taught how mask our true selves and be what culture wants us to be. This is a story about a man caught between two worlds, a life of duty and a past he can't escape. The story opens with Lilian finding her recently encarcerated fathers journals and learning that her father has been living a secret life as a Chinese intelligence operative who reveals C.I.A documents to the Chinese government. Lilian also learns that her father has a secret family in China and uses her job as a professor to start working at a Chinese University to uncover more about the family she never knew. What struck me most was the profound sense of isolation that pervades the novel. Gary is a man without a true home, living a lie in America and...
