The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See β374 pages Book Blurb: Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their villageβs...
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner β 389 pages Book Blurb: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943–aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on...
Some of my Historical Fiction Faves – India and Asia City of Tranquil Light Snow Flower and The Secret FanΒ The Japanese Lover The Last Year of the WarΒ The Island of Sea Women White ChrysanthemumΒ UnboundΒ Love and Other Consolation...
Daughter of Molokaβi by Alan Brennert β 309 pages ARC courtesy of St. Martinβs Press in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi’olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who...
Star of the North by D.B. John β audio Book Blurb: Star of the NorthΒ opens in 1998, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twelve years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching for her, and...
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht β 320 pages Book Blurb: Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves...