Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Korean American novelist, author of the novel The Last Story of Mina Lee (2021).

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  1. 1. What We Kept To Ourselves

    In 1999 the Kim family struggles after their mother Sunny vanished a year earlier. When John finds a stranger's body in the backyard holding a letter to Sunny, the discovery forces the family to consider links between the stranger and their mother. Flashbacks to 1977 follow Sunny, pregnant and newly arrived from Korea to Los Angeles, and an encounter at a bus stop that spans decades and uncovers secrets about identity and migration.

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