Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America by Mary Paik Lee

Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America

Mary Paik Lee with Sucheng Chan

264 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. Her father labored in the sugar plantatio...

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