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They called it and 'honour killing' but to the little girl watching her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder, Omma had committed the sin of sleeping with an American soldier and producing not just a bastard, but a 'honhyol'- a mixed-race child, considered less than worthless. Dumped in a horrific orphanage in post-war Seoul, Kim was lucky enough to be adopted by a fundamentalist American pastor and his wife. Terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, she trained herself to be the perfect child. But just as her Americican features doomed her in the racist Korea, her Korean features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new all-white environment. Her mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows and , in adulthood, she finally finds a way to savour these joys, as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past. Paperback Ed 2000
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