So Won

“I better tell you before, I know, but I know you don't like. So what I do?”
― Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

“Sometimes they would group up and play a team of Hispanic men who were also picnicking with their families. Once, they even played some black men, though my father pointed out to us in the car home that they were African blacks. Somehow there were rarely white people in the park, never groups of their families, just young couples, if anything.”
― Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

“People of God should not forget people trapped in darkness. We must always remember the forgotten people through prayer and through acts of compassion.”
― Kenneth Bae, Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea

“It was not Hansu that she missed, or even Isak. What she was seeing again in her dreams was her youth, her beginning, and her wishes--so this is how she became a woman.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko