The Boat Not Taken
Kalbus, Joanna Choi
| Autor: | Kalbus, Joanna Choi |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Biography / Autobiography |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.05.2025 |
| EAN: | 9798987719794 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 258 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Wtaw Press |
| Untertitel: | A North Korean Mother and Her Daughter |
Produktinformationen "The Boat Not Taken"
Desperate for her daughter's safety during the Communist takeover of North Korea, Joanna Choi's mother left her in a Seoul orphanage. She retrieved her months later to return to their once-tranquil hamlet, but the boatman on the returning ship refused to let the pair board. Joanna and her beloved Omai (mother) became immigrants in mid-twentieth century California, whose streets were supposedly paved with gold, but whose reality was one of hardship, poverty, and anti-Asian discrimination. A lyrical, often humorous memoir, THE BOAT NOT TAKEN is also the story of a divided Korea. Above all it is a love letter to an extraordinary woman: an independent widow fiercely devoted yet destructively deceptive to her child, whose shattering secret, uncovered after her death, shakes the author's sense of identity.
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