A Good Family by Seo Ha-jin is a collection of stories published in 2008. It contains eight stories in total, including “What Grows Out of Sadness,” “Dad's Private Life,” “The Little Thing,” and the title story. In this collection, the author questions the meaning of relationships and interpersonal communication from the perspective of various characters, such as a mother with cancer, a cheating daughter, an ailing doctor who practices Oriental medicine, and a writer who has just embarked on her writing career.
There are no expectations.