About Eugenia Kim:
Eugenia SunHee Kim is a first-generation Korean American, whose writing is inspired by her rich family history. She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including ECHOES UPON ECHOES: New Korean American Writing, and she is an MFA graduate of Bennington College. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, son, and a dog named Andiello.
THE CALLIGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER, Kim’s debut novel, is based upon her parents’ remarkable story. Her father was an early Korean immigrant to the United States, arriving in the 1930s. After a painful decade of forced separation from his beloved country--and his wife of one day--he managed to be reunited with his bride, and later moved some of his young family to America shortly before the Korean War. THE CALLIGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER spans the little-known era of Japan's harsh occupation of Korea, a rarely visited period in history, and is a story inspired by the lost testimony of a shamed nation.
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