A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los AngelesтАЩs Koreatown
A Penguin Classic
Kim┬аRonyoung┬а(Gloria Hahn, 1926тАУ1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrantsтАЩ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S. racism, generational trauma, and the early decades of Los AngelesтАЩs Koreatown from a Korean American womanтАЩs point of view.┬аThrough three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father, and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage, and motherhood.
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