Beyond the scholarly merit and historical significance of this book, the story is hugely compelling, not merely for the facts of the chilling event, but for several other reasons.

Hopefully this book would spur interested readers on to the original MEMOIRS.

Lee and her father travel to China to find her rediscovered Uncle, in an attempt to reunite him with his mother (Lee’s grandmother, the heroine of her first book).

Translations of poems by Koreans (written in Korean vernacular, not Chinese), including historical annotations and organized by era.

A New York City saga peopled with insecure, wounded, and angry resentful characters.

This translation does fine justice to the subtlety of poetry, especially this genre that is suffused with nature as analogy, illusion and reference.

Memoir. Interesting story of early childhood in northern mts. of Korea, outside of Pyeongyang.

Beautiful illustration and a clear story line describe this Korean legendary character, along with some of the complicated cultural mores of the early Yi Dynasty, its injustices, and several traditions and customs, without being intrusive or didactic.

A memoir of the author’s parents: the mother a picture bride from Korea married to a man who ends up in an upholstery/furniture/custom drapery businesses and makes a meager, then successful, living in Hawaii during 1920-1940s, with little chance of returning during Japan’s occupation of Korea