04855cam a2200805 4500 460592134 TxAuBib 20201213120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781643854410 1643854410 B08272M3C6 Amazon 2b5f0e2e-2094-4e74-9acc-ec752a155cec OverDrive (Reserve ID) 647536 647536 5131552 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hahn, Sumi. The Mermaid from Jeju [Libby eBook] : A Novel. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1015kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. world war 2 historical fiction. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. historical fiction novels. historical fiction books. wwii historical fiction. ww2 historical fiction. contemporary fiction. world war ii fiction. World War 2 fiction. Historical Fiction. historical novels. literary fiction. asian american. Coming of age. fiction books. asian fiction. World War II. Family Saga . south korean. World War 2. true events. Historical. love story. wwii books. romance. England. magical. mermaid. haenyeo. diving. family. Asian. Korea. Drama. Music. love. WWII. jeju. ww2. HTML:"A transporting masterpiece." —Booklist starred review Inspired by true events on Korea's Jeju Island, Sumi Hahn's "entrancing [debut] novel, brimming with lyricism and magic" (Jennifer Rosner, The Yellow Bird Sings) explores what it means to truly love in the wake of devastation. In the aftermath of World War II, Goh Junja is a girl just coming into her own. She is the latest successful deep sea diver in a family of strong haenyeo. Confident she is a woman now, Junja urges her mother to allow her to make the Goh family's annual trip to Mt. Halla, where they trade abalone and other sea delicacies for pork. Junja, a sea village girl, has never been to the mountains, where it smells like mushrooms and earth. While there, she falls in love with a mountain boy Yang Suwol, who rescues her after a particularly harrowing journey. But when Junja returns one day later, it is just in time to see her mother take her last breath, beaten by the waves during a dive she was taking in Junja's place. Spiraling in grief, Junja sees her younger siblings sent to live with their estranged father. Everywhere she turns, Junja is haunted by the loss of her mother, from the meticulously tended herb garden that has now begun to sprout weeds, to the field where their bed sheets are beaten. She has only her grandmother and herself. But the world moves on without Junja. The political climate is perilous. Still reeling from Japan's forced withdrawal from the peninsula, Korea is forced to accommodate the rapid establishment of US troops. Junja's canny grandmother, who lived through the Japanese invasion that led to Korea's occupation understands the signs of danger all too well. When Suwol is arrested for working with and harboring communists, and the perils of post-WWII overtake her homelands, Junja must learn to navigate a tumultuous world unlike anything she's ever known. "Original, luminous, and lyrical" (Kirsty Manning, The Song of the Jade Lily), The Mermaid from Jeju deftly captures the resilience of the human spirit, and the courage required in love and survival. "Sumi Hahn is a dream weaver whose poetic and powerful prose makes us believe in magic and reconfirms the transformative power of storytelling." —Nguyen Phan Que Mai. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-12 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2b5f0e2e-2094-4e74-9acc-ec752a155cec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2b5f0e2e-2094-4e74-9acc-ec752a155cec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2b5f0e2e-2094-4e74-9acc-ec752a155cec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)