he act of adopting a new name ruptures the past and future, marking the reconstruction of personal mythology to make sense of our surroundings, particularly after seismic life events. In , this attempt to introduce a new position in the world through linguistic transformation is undertaken by 12-year-old Na Young, who suddenly feels the ground shift beneath her feet when her film director father and artist mother prepare to emigrate from South Korea to Canada. Left behind will be a life in Seoul as an academically competitive child with a crush on her classmate Hae Sung, who recently outperformed the stubborn, pigtail-sporting protagonist on a math test. Soon, Na Young will become Nora—short for Lenore,
