BOOK

The magical language of others : a memoir

Koh, EJ, 1988- author

2020

Overview

\"After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love-letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. The letters lay bare the impact of her mother's departure, as Eun Ji gets to know the woman who raised her and left her behind. Eun Ji is a student, a traveler, a dancer, a poet, and a daughter coming to terms not only with her parents' prolonged absence, but her family's history: her grandmother Jun's years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre. Where, Koh asks, do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words--in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language--to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? [This book] is a fearless and poetic mind grappling with forgiveness, reconciliation, legacy, and intergenerational trauma-conjuring an epic saga and love story between mothers and daughters spanning four generations\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Subject: Koh, EJ, 1988- / Koh, EJ, 1988- Correspondence. / Koh, EJ, 1988- Family. / Mothers and daughters Biography. / Korean American women Biography. / Korean Americans Biography / Immigrants United States Biography.
• ISBN: 9781947793385

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3611.O3659 Z46 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE