For example: “Anger and fear swarm through her body, radiating in hot waves to the soldier beside her. Bracht rejects the old mantra of show, don’t tell her characters’ pain is shown, told, shown and told again.
The language is blunt, with every page shouting of wrongs perpetrated. Hana’s narrative covers the war years, while in Emi’s chapters it is 2011, and the elderly Emi is still looking for her sister. Hana is dragged away by a Japanese soldier to a life of sexual slavery Emi is left to grow up wondering what happened to her sister. White Chrysanthemum is the story of two Korean sisters separated by the second world war. G eorge Orwell taught us that all writing is political: Mary Lynn Bracht’s debut novel is forthrightly so.
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