| International Standard Book Number |
9781668096321
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668096323
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| Personal Name |
Reed, Bora Lee, author.
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| Title Statement |
Song for another home : a novel / Bora Lee Reed.
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| Edition Statement |
First 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
309 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Reese's book club.
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| Summary, Etc. |
When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But then China joins the war, and they decide to flee their home in Pyongyang despite the freezing temperatures and lack of food. Journeying from the barren, war-torn streets of the North in the winter to the seedy back alleys of the South Korean capital of Seoul in the summer, the family falls in with an unlikely group of miscreants. Meanwhile, far to the south, Oksoon's cousin Junho seeks refuge at an orphanage for abandoned children. As the institution struggles to keep its doors open, Junho, with his elementary command of English, is tasked with drafting letters to American missionaries and benefactors to ask for money. When the enigmatic director brings her aristocratic niece to the orphanage, Junho finds himself caught between his impulse for survival and his growing affections for the young woman, even though his feelings put him at risk of being expelled from the only safe place he knows. Movingly rendered, Song for Another Home highlights the power of resilience, the tension between personal dreams and duty to family, and how choices made in a brief moment have consequences that reverberate across time and through generations.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Korea Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Korean War, 1950-1953 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Korea Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Series Added Entry-Uniform Title |
Reese's book club.
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