Radical Ahjumma: Feminist Books from the Korean Diaspora

Schedule

Sun Jul 07 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

Location

470 49th St | Oakland, CA

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Join us for a talk and celebration of local Korean Authors/ahjummas who explore secrets and storytelling as a subversive and radical act.
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Radical Ahjumma: Feminist Books from the Korean Diaspora

Womb House Books

Temescal Alley, 470 49th St.

www.wombhousebooks.com

Moderated by S. Isabel Choi

WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES, a novel by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

A propulsive and moving story of a Korean American family in Los Angeles torn asunder by the mother’s disappearance and the discovery of a dead stranger’s body in their backyard.

Order What We Kept to Ourselves

EXCAVATIONS, a novel by Hannah Michell

A former journalist turned stay-at-home mother must find her missing husband and protect her children in this “sharp, impressive debut about corruption among South Korea’s elite” (The Boston Globe).

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STARRY FIELD: A MEMOIR OF LOST HISTORY by Margaret Junhae Lee

A poignant memoir by a journalist who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents.

Order Starry Field




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470 49th St, 470 49th Street, Oakland, United States

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