Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim

Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Elizabeth Kim

228 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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The night Elizabeth Kim watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut would forever define her life. Omma had committed the sin of sleeping with an American soldier, and producing ...

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