Suki Kim
Author
Description
A striking first novel about the dark side of the American Dream.
Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family's history. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Traces the author's experiences as an English teacher to the sons of North Korea's elite during the last six months of Kim Jong Il's reign, an effort complicated by oppressive regime enforcers, propaganda, and evangelical missionaries.