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Chang-rae Leeâs Global Revision of the Suburban Novel
Credit.Mark Wang
By Alexander Chee
By Chang-rae Lee
I canât say exactly where much of Chang-rae Leeâs newest novel, âMy Year Abroad,â is set, because the narrator, Tiller Bardmon, canât tell us either. Ad hoc consort and au pair to a 30-something woman we know only as Val, Tiller lives with her and her young son, Victor Jr., in a smallish American suburb he calls âStagno.â Val and VeeJ, as the boy is nicknamed, are in a witness protection program because of her disappeared husbandâs âdealings with a gang of New Jersey-based Tashkentians that involved Mongolian mineral rights, faux sturgeon eggs and very real shoulder-mounted rocket launchers.â Tiller met her in a Hong Kong airport as he was escaping what was perhaps the biggest mistake of his life, and we soon learn that Val was doing much the same.