Eugenia Kim. (2018). The Kinship of Secrets. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Eugenia Kim. 2018. The Kinship of Secrets. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Eugenia Kim, The Kinship of Secrets. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Eugenia Kim. The Kinship of Secrets. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

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   • bioText: Eugenia Kim is the daughter of Korean parents who immigrated to America shortly after the Pacific War. She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, and is an MFA graduate of Bennington College. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and son. The Calligrapher's Daughter is her first novel.
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The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart

'A gorgeous achievement' Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
'Graceful, poignant and moving' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.

But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war? And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended?

Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister.

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   • source: Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
   • content: The Kinship of Secrets is a beautiful allegory of loss and recovery. Through the parallel growth of two separated sisters, Kim bears witness to the fall and rise of nation and its resilient and generous people. The Kinship of Secrets is a gorgeous achievement
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   • source: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
   • content: A graceful, poignant and moving portrayal of one family's struggle to remain a family through decades of war, migration and separation
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   • source: Sunday Times
   • content: Nothing is taken for granted in Eugenia Kim's thoughtful, well-written The Kinship of Secrets ... Poignant and richly evocative of both Korea and the immigrant experience, Kim's insightful novel is based on her own background
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   • source: Washington Post
   • content: Beautifully illuminate[s] Korea's past in ways that inform our present ... Kim infuses a coming-of-age story about being an outsider with the realities of the war, which forced many family separations, some of which still persist today
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: Finely wrought ... A stirring novel about family and the sacrifices made to keep it whole
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   • content: Elegant ... A valuable window into Korean history as well as to issues like immigration and assimilation that couldn't be more relevant today
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: Kim is a true storyteller, and her latest work is engaging throughout. Readers who enjoy family sagas by Lisa See and Jamie Ford will appreciate this one
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   • source: Krys Lee, author of How I Became a North Korean
   • content: I felt as though I had stepped into a graceful story of two countries, South Korea and America, and family ties that survive the challenges of history
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   • source: Jung Yun, author of Shelter
   • content: What an extraordinary time to read this heartfelt novel about the bonds of family, set against the backdrop of the Korean War. Eugenia Kim is a masterful storyteller who makes her characters come to life as she spans decades, continents and cultures
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    • source: Yoojin Grace Wuertz, author of Everything Belongs to Us
    • content: The Korean War has been called 'the forgotten war' in the West, but Kim's second novel, a powerful narrative about the ways families relentlessly love and protect each other despite immense challenges, is a story that demands to be remembered, along with its history. The Kinship of Secrets is both a meditation on homesickness and a celebration of homecoming that made me appreciate the complicated bonds between sisters, between mothers and daughters, and the love for relatives that become surrogate parents. A beautiful novel, and a necessary, important story for our times
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    • source: Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody's Daughter
    • content: A gripping story of war and immigration, as well as a tender meditation on what it means to be of a family and of a country
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    • source: Washington Post
    • content: Keenly and often lyrically observed ... In quietly recording the arc of a woman's experience from idyllic childhood through harrowing adulthood, Kim mirrors the changing nation
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    • source: Publishers Weekly
    • content: A beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning thirty years of Korean history
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      September 17, 2018
      The lives of two sisters growing up on opposite sides of the world—one in war-torn Korea, the other in America—come to life in this finely wrought novel from Kim (The Calligrapher’s Daughter), inspired by her family’s experiences. In 1948, Najin and Calvin Cho leave Korea for America in search of a better life, taking firstborn Miran with them, but leaving their infant daughter, Inja, behind with Najin’s parents, brother, and sister-in-law. The Chos intend to return for Inja when she is older and better able to travel. But the Korean War breaks out, foiling their plans. The Chos send care packages to their family, but that doesn’t assuage their anguish at being separated. Told from each sister’s viewpoint, readers learn about their vastly different upbringings—Inja’s frightening experiences leaving her war-torn home to flee to a safer part of Korea while Marin grew up with the threat of war but in relative luxury. Yet this is also a family with deep secrets, between parents and children and between siblings, and the way these secrets impact the characters when they are finally united reflects Kim’s sharp insight into relationships. This is a stirring novel about family and the sacrifices made to keep it whole.

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The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart

'A gorgeous achievement' Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
'Graceful, poignant and moving' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.

But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin...

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