A review by loveangle
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

4.0

"Perhaps that was the life of any woman like her mother, a woman who was poor and in so many ways powerless but nonetheless persisted like a kind of miracle, a defiance against the world."

A story that is so sad and raw and true and powerful. A story that weaves together all the different strands of a life, and history, into a patchwork that is beautiful and painful. This story made me cry. Because it's a real one that is often buried or ignored. I still live with my mom, and I still take her for granted. This book just made me think a lot of my mom and how much I need to love her better.