Jennifer R. Kim

Eunhae, a 9 year old South Korean girl, clings to her Appa (father) who is leaving for America to make a better life for her and her mother. It will take 2 years for them to join him, and not a day goes by without her deeply missing him.

When they finally arrive in San Francisco he isn’t at the airport to greet them. Instead of a loving joyful reunion, they are met by his unfriendly family who inform them that her Appa is in a coma and near death. In a blink of an eye, her father dies, her mother is at the mercy of in-laws who mistreat them, and they have to find their way in a land where they don’t speak the language. There is no time to grieve the loss of her father, and there is family history that no one talks about. It will take Eunhae 20 years to make this journey through grief to wholeness.

I recommend this book to anyone who has lost a loved one, especially a parent, and who has found it hard to move on with their life.… (plus d'informations)