The Kinship Of Secrets

Eugenia Kim Bloomsbury €15.99

In 1948, Najin and Calvin Chin emigrate to the US from Korea with one of their two daughters, leaving the other temporarily in the care of their extended family back home. The outbreak of the Korean War, however, means that the two girls grow up in parallel universes. Inspired by her own family history and narrated in alternating chapters by the two daughters, this is an assured, astute account of the immigrant experience.

Simon Humphreys