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The Magical Language Of Others: A Memoir,Used
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography/MemoirNamed One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily Longlisted for the PEN Open Book AwardThe Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Kohs parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteenyearold Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mothers absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and loveletters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.As Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to historyher grandmother Juns years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the loss and destruction her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacreand to poetry, as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. Where do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find wordsin Korean, Japanese, English, or any languageto articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love?The Magical Language of Others weaves a profound tale of hardwon selfhood and our deep bonds to family, place, and language, introducingin Eun Ji Koha singular, incandescent voice.
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