A review by susanbrooks
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim

2.0

When I finished this book of historical fiction about a woman in Korea from 1910 to post WWII, I wanted to have been interested. (How’s that for complicated tense work.) Reading the short interview with the author about how it was based upon her mother’s life, it felt worthy of fascination. However, neither the characters nor the history actually popped for me.