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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America - Mary Paik Lee
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"...Mary grows up to be a hardworking, honest, and caring woman, prepared to stand up for what she believes is right, particularly when it comes to racism. Written with the intimacy of an oral history, her memoir allows the reader into the life of one of the few (perhaps less than three dozen) Korean-born children growing up on the West Coast before 1910..."
(E.B., p. 241)