Publisher's Synopsis
'America Town' in post-war Korea is a bad place to end up: a garish shanty town of cheap bars and organized prostitution in which mothers fight with daughters over the dollars to be earned off the GIs stationed nearby. For Sookie and her half sister, Hyun Jin, it's even worse. While still schoolgirls they are introduced by their mother to the seductive pull of American consumer goods, supplied by their soldier lovers, but quickly discover the high cost in human degradation that goes with them, including child prostitution, rape and the brutal loss of self. Nora Okja Keller's powerful follow-up to the critically acclaimed Comfort Woman is a stark and poetic tale of love, survival and self-sacrifice from an exciting new literary talent.
