Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumphfull of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom.Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dads disappearance; he cant even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player.So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the U.S. government to deport him to South Korea, hes forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and as an outsider, Bucky has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didnt know he had. In an expat bar in Seoul, in the bleak barracks of his Korean military, on a remote island where an erratic sergeant fights a shadow-war with North Korean spies, and in the remote town where he seeks out his drunken, indebted biological father, Bucky has to assemble the building blocks of a new language and stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch. That means managing his ego, insecurities, sexual desires, family legacies, and allegiances in order to make it back homewherever that might beand determine who he is to himself, who he is to others, and what kind of man he wants to become.
