The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.
The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.
An MFA graduate of Bennington College, Eugenia has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Review and Raven Chronicles. She teaches at Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program.
Spanning Asia to America
Eugenia is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War.“My parents’ stories seemed to carry an urgency meant to instill a Korean identity that was seeping from us with each new American word learned, each Korean word lost.”
Eugenia Kim
An MFA graduate of Bennington College, Eugenia has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Review and Raven Chronicles. She teaches at Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program.
Spanning Asia to America
Eugenia is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War. “My parents’ stories seemed to carry an urgency meant to instill a Korean identity that was seeping from us with each new American word learned, each Korean word lost.”
Eugenia Kim is the author of two novels: The Calligrapher’s Daughter and The Kinship of Secrets. She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Review and Raven Chronicles. An MFA graduate of Bennington College, she teaches at Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program.
Eugenia is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War. “My parents’ stories seemed to carry an urgency meant to instill a Korean identity that was seeping from us with each new American word learned, each Korean word lost.”
From the author ofThe Calligrapher’s Daughtercomes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.
A sweeping novel, inspired by the life of the author’s mother, about a young woman named Najin Han who is the privileged daughter of a calligrapher. In the shadow of the dying monarchy, Najin longs to choose her own destiny and dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea.
From the author of The Calligrapher’s Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.
A sweeping novel, inspired by the life of the author’s mother, about a young woman named Najin Han who is the privileged daughter of a calligrapher. In the shadow of the dying monarchy,Najin longs to choose her own destiny and dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea.
