Nancy Jooyoun Kim
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Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter. Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can't understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother's past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented...
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2023.
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"1999. The Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than ever before. One evening, John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever. 1977. Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her husband. America is not turning out the way she...