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Nancy Jooyoun Kim

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Average rating: 3.52 · 49,437 ratings · 4,674 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Last Story of Mina Lee

3.53 avg rating — 45,883 ratings — published 2020 — 20 editions
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What We Kept to Ourselves

3.46 avg rating — 3,552 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions
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"I was just on a panel with Nancy at a book festival, and she explained that she used the missing-person element as a metaphor for the way that so many women "disappear" when they become mothers, which is something I've definitely felt. (And the re-em" Read more of this review »
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“She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. Their decisions would always be scrutinized by the lives at which they were able to sacrifice themselves, their bodies, their pleasures and desires. A woman who imagined her own way out would always be ostracized for her own strength.”
Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

“Choosing if and when and how to share the truth might be the deepest, most painful necessity of growing out into the world and into yourself.”
Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

“Every meal, even a somber one like this, was a celebration of what we had left, what remained on this earth to taste and feel and see.”
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I need your help deciding what book we should read for the first ever Night Shift Reads group read and chat. Pick the book you would most like to read and the book with the most votes will be our inaugural read. The other top choices will show up over the next several months.

 
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