In Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker, the first-person narrator of the novel imagines the possibility of a Korean American mayor in New York City:
[John] Kwang was certainly arresting to me.... Before I knew of
him, I had never even conceived of someone like him. A Korean man,
of his age, as part of the vernacular. Not just a respectable grocer
or dry cleaner or doctor, but a larger public figure who was willing
to speak and act outside the tight sphere of family.... In ...
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