A powerful graphic novel memoir in the vein of American Born Chinese, about a Korean-born, non-English speaking girl who is abruptly transplanted from Seoul to Huntsville, Alabama, and must grapple wi
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate?In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingp
High school student Alice Song loves drawing manhwa, but when she wins Cake Magazine's contest for manhwa creators and gets to meet one of her idols in the field, the results are not what she had hope
Details life in the small factory town of Dismount Fort in northern China, as seen through the eyes of Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant.
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Ha Jin's debut collection of short fiction, Ocean of Words .
