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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, Mary Paik Lee, edited by Su Cheng Chan, 1990, United States, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

"...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)


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