Bora Lee Reed

The powerful and expansive novel from a Reese's Book Club Lit-Up Fellow 'A brilliant, sweeping historical tale' Irenosen Okojie MBE, author of Nudibranch 'Paints a heartfelt tale of wartime Korean orphanages and shanty towns' Yangsze Choo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Fox Wife 1950, Pyongyang. Oksoon's father—confident that the war is over—has left for Seoul in search of opportunity....

1950, Pyongyang. Oksoon's father—confident that the war is over—has left for Seoul in search of opportunity. There is nothing to do but wait, until the Chinese army attacks and forces Oksoon, her mother and her brother to flee southward themselves. But the journey is dangerous, and wartime makes enemies of even the kindest of friends. Meanwhile, Oksoon's cousin Junho has...