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Title: |
The Boat Not Taken |
| Sub-title: |
A North Korean Mother and Her Daughter |
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| By (author): |
Joanna Choi Kalbus |
| ISBN13: |
9798987719794 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
258 |
| Weight: |
.285 Kg. |
| Published: |
- May 2025 |
| List Price: |
14.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 30 |
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| Desperate for her daughterâ s safety during the Communist takeover of North Korea, Joanna Choiâ s mother left her in a Seoul orphanage. She retrieved her months later to return to their once-tranquil hamlet, but the boatman on the returning ship refused to let the pair board. Joanna and her beloved Omai (mother) became immigrants in mid-twentieth century California, whose streets were supposedly paved with gold, but whose reality was one of hardship, poverty, and anti-Asian discrimination. A lyrical, often humorous memoir, THE BOAT NOT TAKEN is also the story of a divided Korea. Above all it is a love letter to an extraordinary woman: an independent widow fiercely devoted yet destructively deceptive to her child, whose shattering secret, uncovered after her death, shakes the authorâ s sense of identity. |
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