Year Of Impossible Goodbyes

In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan’s homeland of North Korea is occupied by the Japanese. Sookan watches her people–forced to renounce their native ways–become increasingly angry and humiliated. When war’s end brings only a new type of domination–from the Russian communists.

Related: Asia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Korea

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