Crystal Hana Kim Stone Home, The Paperback Book Multicolor

Some fiction is both story and testimoniala bearing witness to lessons that must not be forgotten. Haunting and elegiac, The Stone Homeis fearless in its cleareyed recounting. The Washington PostA hauntingly poetic family drama and comingofage story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory centera stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author ofIf You Leave Me. In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger a young Korean American woman holding a familiarlooking knifea knife Eunju hasnt seen in thirty years, and that connects her to a place shed desperately hoped to leave behind forever. In South Korea in the 1980s, young Eunju and her mother are homeless on the street. After being captured by the police, theyre sent to live within the walls of a statesanctioned reformatory center that claims to rehabilitate the nations citizens but hides a darker, more violent reality. While Eunju and her mother form a tightknit community with the other women in the kitchen, two teenage brothers, Sangchul and Youngchul, are compelled to labor in the workshops and make increasingly desperate decisionsand all are forced down a path of survival, the repercussions of which will echo for decades to come. Inspired by real events, told through alternating timelines and two intimate perspectives, The Stone Home is a deeply affecting story of a mother and daughters love and a pair of brothers... Crystal Hana Kim Stone Home, The Paperback Book