Nora Okja Keller

“My mother was like a cat who could never catch the tail of happiness because she never stopped chasing it.”
― Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman

“The baby I could keep came when I was already dead.

I was twelve when I was murdered, fourteen when I looked into the Yalu River and, finding no face looking back at me, knew that I was dead. I wanted to let the Yalu's currents carry my body to where it might find my spirit again, but the Japanese soldiers hurried me across the bridge before I could jump.”
― Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman