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Helena Rho
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Born
Gwangju, Korea, Republic of
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Maxine Hong Kingston. Toni Morrison. Joan Didion.
Member Since
June 2020
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American Seoul
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2022
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8 editions
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Stone Angels
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2024
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"Stone Angels is fascinating and skillfully written. The engaging and ambitious story was difficult to read at times due to traumatic experiences displayed yet has a vivid sense of period and place."
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"riveting, beautiful, haunting work about WW2 and Korea. the protagonist finds out she has an aunt, one who was taken by the Japanese to be a "comfort woman", and goes to find her. 5 stars. tysm for the arc."
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"wow, this book blew my expectations about Korean history and what I thought I knew. It was riveting and quite the page-turner."
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"Not me crying for the final 75 pages. "
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Helena Rho
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Hi Kate,
Thanks for your lovely review of STONE ANGELS! It's so nice to hear when a reader recommends a book I wrote--and said that my writing was "beautiful." Authors are human beings who appreciate kindness. Thank you! Helena |
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“I went to Jeju Island to remember my mother. At her happiest. At her finest. Before everything fell apart. Because that is how I choose to remember my mother. To pay homage to the woman she had been, to the woman she could have been. To etch into my memory the one place she had experienced unadulterated joy.”
― American Seoul
― American Seoul
“the white patriarchal court system, which wrongly insists it is a justice system while punishing women and people of color.”
― American Seoul
― American Seoul
“I’m not a good mother, but I try. How does it come so easily to some? The tending, the giving over of oneself to those who’ve come out of you. As if we women are nothing on our own.”
― If You Leave Me
― If You Leave Me
“Some days, we look for her.
In the beginning, we searched the corners of empty rooms, the fields she'd walked when lonesome, each other's growing faces. The tree we used to lie under together cut down, we searched the skies above and wondered where she could have gone. Now, we look for her in our work, our partners, our children. We fret, especially, over our own girls. And when we are alone, we examine ourselves for all the ways we can and cannot be her daughters.”
― If You Leave Me
In the beginning, we searched the corners of empty rooms, the fields she'd walked when lonesome, each other's growing faces. The tree we used to lie under together cut down, we searched the skies above and wondered where she could have gone. Now, we look for her in our work, our partners, our children. We fret, especially, over our own girls. And when we are alone, we examine ourselves for all the ways we can and cannot be her daughters.”
― If You Leave Me
“I realized we were lurching toward a new world—one where women would disappear with foreigners, where Americans would never leave us alone, where they didn't simply provide us with money but with their ways of living as well.”
― If You Leave Me
― If You Leave Me
