Nancy Kim

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Engaging, heart-breaking story about that highlights the human experience and how we’re all just doing our best to find our way.

Alice is still reeling from her father’s death, yet her mother (her father’s wife) seems to have quickly moved on. She’s loaded up all of his things in black trash bags and set them out on the curb for the garbage men. As her mother won’t talk about her father’s death, Alice secretly digs through the discarded bags and finds her father’s journal. There’s only one problem: She doesn’t read Korean, and therefore can’t decipher the diary.

Alice enlists the help of a business contact who reads Korean who read the journal and discovers secrets that strike at the core of both of their families.
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I didn’t really care for how Alice thought her father was the one to be most pitied out of all the cast of characters, since he was not able to be with the woman he really loved. There were many others in the story who were not loved in return, which is the greater tragedy in my opinion. But in the end, it’s about acceptance and moving on.

A short but moving read, this one is recommended for book club aficionados and those who don’t mind a story that really pulls at, and pummels, the heart.

A big thank you to Nancy Kim, Lake Union Publishing, and NetGalley for providing an Advance Reader Copy in exchange for this review.

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Alice Chang is a 39-year old whose marriage has ended after the sudden death of her father. She is disappointed that her mother is not grieving over her father's death in the manner of a wife of over 40 years should. Her mother can not wait to remove all of her father's possessions. Alice checks the bags of his possession and finds what seems to be a diary but it is in her father's native language, Korean.

She can not read Korean so brings it to her boss at the library where is works. Ironically the diary revolves around a lost love of her Father; his true love of his life. The truth is a family secret will change Alice's outlook of live.… (altro)