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They called it an "honor killing," but to Elizabeth Kim, the night she watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder. Her Omma had committed the sin of lying with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard but a "honhyol--a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing. <br>Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul like garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on

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Author

Kim, Elizabeth

Publisher

New York : Doubleday

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385496339

Category

biography

Subjects

Fiction, Women, Children'S Studies

Rating

3.83 / 5 (1,086 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13