But he knows that he can’t go to the police – can’t tell anyone what’s happened – until he’s worked it out and that means forcing himself to think and to remember everything … Yu-jin doesn’t know what happened: he’s had a blackout and doesn’t remember much about the previous night. In the hallway lies the body of his mother, her throat sliced open. One morning Yu-jin wakes up to find both himself and the apartment covered in blood. He takes the medication for his epilepsy prescribed by his psychiatrist Auntie but dislikes how it dulls his senses and sometimes comes off his meds so that he can experience life more sharply, frequently going out to run late at night and in the early hours of the morning so that he can enjoy the feeling of being free. Yu-jin was a champion swimmer heading for a place on the South Korean Olympic team until epilepsy forced him to stop competing. Turned his energy towards study, he became determined to become a lawyer, he is currently waiting on the results for his law school admission exams. His father and older brother Yu-min died in an accident 10 years previously. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.Ģ5-year-old Yu-jin lives in with his mother (who worked in publishing before retiring) and adopted older brother Hae-jin (who works in film production) in an apartment in suburban Incheon. You can order The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong from Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. He knows he will be accused if he reports the body but what to do instead? Faced with an unthinkable choice, he makes an unthinkable decision.Īs the police descend on the suburban South Korean district in which eh lives, another body is discovered, and Yu-jin must remember what happened – he has to go back, right back, to the night he lost his father and brother, and, eventually, further than that … He suffers from regular seizures and blackouts. Yu-jin struggles to piece together the fragments of what he can remember from the night before.

It’s the body of someone who Yu-jin knows all too well. There’s no sign of a break-in and there’s a body downstairs. But one day he wakes up covered in blood.

Yu-jin is a perfect student, champion swimmer and good son.

I needed to figure out what had happened. It was intense, as though my whole body was inhaling it. Strange scenes flitted through my mind – the fuzzy yellow light of a row of street lamps in the fog, swirling water below my feet, a crimson umbrella rolling along a rain-soaked road.

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