Marie Myung-Ok Lee
1) Hurt you
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After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.
The Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. His sister Georgia struggles to find her place in an Asian-majority school where whites still dominate culturally,...
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A "heartwarming and heartbreaking" story of a Korean American girl's search for her roots. Somebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage, eventually embarking on a crusade to find her birth mother. Paralleling Sarah's story is that of Kyung-sook,...