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330 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 2021
Audio book source: Library
Narrator: Greta Jung
Length: 12H 15M
“Remember how I told you that I wanted to look in the mirror and know who I was? I came to the sad realization that the reason I hated seeing my reflection was because I didn’t like my Koreanness. When I came here and everyone around me had the same things—the same hair color, the same eyes, the same delicate profile, the eye smiles, all of it, it reminded me of how I’d shunned my own culture. If I don’t belong, is that really anyone’s fault but my own?”
"My ancestors are your ancestors. Where you were raised and who you were raised by doesn’t change that. If anything your experience makes you all the more Korean because what is a Korean but someone who has experienced loss and still survived?”