![]() ![]() Not a happy book, but a good one with a strong ending. (There must be other intergenerational/cultural family stories out there – just can’t think of them right now.) ![]() I think if you liked books by Amy Tan or similar, you’d like this one. ![]() Normally not a big fan of this, but this book worked for me once I got the hang of the writing style. This is not a straight-forward narrative and there is quite a bit of magical realism (naturally, since we see some of it from the mother’s PoV and the mother has visions). The mother can see spirits and goes into trances – a gift that she believes she was given after having suffered as a “comfort woman” to the Japanese troops when they invaded Korea. ![]() The book flips back and forth between the daughter’s present time PoV and the mother’s (now dead) PoV and the cultural/generational clashes that arise between them. I have just finished Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller (1998), a debut novel following the story of an adult daughter of a Korean immigrant wife and her white US missionary husband who now live in Hawaii. ![]()
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