Born in South Korea, raised in America, educated in England and equally comfortable speaking Korean or English, novelist Krys Lee has trouble pinpointing her "home." She is now based in Seoul, where her world is "intimate yet alienated," but when she returns to her old lives in the U.K. and U.S. — places that "should be immediately close to me" — she feels no different.
"I return feeling more a prodigal son (or daughter) who no longer knows what home is," she says.