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This review originally ran in 2020.

Look at the color, he says.
This is why I picked this place.
This is the best dirt in America.
But that heartland isnt actually a place of set borders and unbroken expanses.
Korean people use their heads, okay?
And yet, in his obsession with becoming a self-made man is a buy-in to the countrys implicit promise.
His tonal restraint can be a strength and a weakness.
Grandma smells like Korea!