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"They called it an "honor killing," but to Elizabeth Kim, the night she watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder. Her Omma had committed the sin of lying with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard but a honhyol - a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing.".
"Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul like garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on the next phase of her life when she was adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife in the United States. Unfamiliar with Western customs and language, but terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, or even killed, Kim trained herself to be the perfect child.
But just as her Western features doomed her in Korea, so her Asian features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new, all-white environment." "After escaping her adoptive parents' home, only to find herself in an abusive and controlling marriage, Kim finally made a break for herself by having a daughter and running away with her to a safer haven - something Omma could not do for her."--BOOK JACKET.
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Korean American women, Korea, Racially mixed children, Racially mixed people, Orphans, Korean Americans, Abuse of, Fundamentalism, Biography, Women, Koreans, Social conditions, History, Illegitimate children, Religious fundamentalism, Abused women, Korea, biography, California, biography, Koreans, united states, Kim, elizabeth, Korean american women--biography, Korean americans--biography, Racially mixed people--united states--biography, Racially mixed children--korea--biography, Orphans--korea--biography, Women--abuse of, Women--abuse of--korea, Fundamentalism--biography, E184.k6 k44 2000, 973/.04957/0092 bPeople
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Ten Thousand Sorrows
July 1, 2002, Bantam Books Ltd
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Zuo ri bu ke liu: Ten thousand sorrows
2000, Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
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Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan
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Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan
2000, Ted Smart
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