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Chinhominey's Secret

A Novel

By Kim, Nancy

Publishers Summary:
In this moving first novel, a Korean-American family faces not only intergenerational cultural conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized daughters, but also the results of a terrible prophecy, made by a fortune-teller 20 years earlier to Chinhominey, the long-estranged grandmother.

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ISBN
978-1-88259-328-6
Publisher
Bridge Works


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Reviewed on February 15, 1999

Set in Los Angeles, corporate lawyer Kim's first novel focuses on a "typical" Korean American family. Yung Chul Choi, an accountant, and his wife, Myung Hee, have two daughters. Their oldest, beautiful Christina, is the "perfect" daughter, with a good career as a teacher and a successful American boyfriend. Grace, a senior in high school, i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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