pIn the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean- American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncles suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. His life intertwines with Pavel, a painter famous for revolution Katka, his equally alluring wife and Pavels partnera giant of a man with an American name. As the flood slowly makes its way into the old