Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim – 416 pages ARC from Ecco Books for a honest review Book Blurb: Beasts of a Little Land: An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a...
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The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See –374 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 village’s...
Star of the North by D.B. John
Star of the North by D.B. John – audio Book Blurb: Star of the North 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
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht – 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...
The Orphan Master’s Son
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson – 443 pages Book Blurb: In this epic, critically-acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie,...
Please Look After Mom
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin - 254 pages Book Blurb: When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows...
This Burns My Heart
This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park - 310 pages Book Blurb: Chamara is difficult to translate from Korean to English: To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? Such is the burden Samuel Park’s audacious,...