Synopses & Reviews
In this sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, the unforgettable heroine, Sookan, is now a refugee in Pusan, South Korea, where she strives to make her world normal again.
Review
"This inspirational work possesses a confidence and quiet triumph with universal reverberations." Publishers Weekly, Starred
Synopsis
* Wonderfully telling scenes evoke the time, the place, andmore subtlythe deep-running emotions that these people, bound by customs and besieged by troubles, were so rarely free to acknowledge.”Kirkus Reviews, pointer review Ms. Choi writes of social, political and personal hurts in a context few young Americans today have experienced. Yet she tells of more than dislocation: she tells of Sookans personal growth, indeed her triumph.”New York Times
Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is now fifteen years old and a refugee in Pusan, a city in a southern province of Korea. The Korean War is raging, and she once again has been separated from her father and brothers. Anxiously awaiting any news of them, Sookan imagines a time when she can return to a normal life in Seoul. In the meantime, though she often feels sad, alone, and scared, she finds solace in a forbidden friendship and from the mysterious shouting poet” who offers her and her fellow refugees inspiration each morning.