By age fourteen she was on her own, fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of Seoul, begging from American soldiers and stealing food. Then fate intervened: She was hit by a car driven by a prominent f...

“A book about ‘the sins of the fathers.’ . . . A gritty, troubling book.”— The Honolulu Advertiser “The other Hawai’i, the one tourists never get to see.”—Ia...