Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
Like a lot of Koreans of their age, my parents survived war and led very difficult lives. Books were an escape. My dad used to joke that had he learned Russian instead of English, we may have immigrated to the (then) Soviet Union instead of America.
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When we first moved to the U.S., we didn’t have a lot of money, so there was no toy room at our apartment. We didn’t need it. I had a doll, which was one more than my older sister had. But we always had lots of books, and they all came from our local library.