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The Shape of My Eyes

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A touching, humorous account of the author’s cultural reckoning with his Korean heritage and hidden family secrets.   A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to explain the unexpected result.   Born to an American soldier and a Korean mother in the wake of the Korean War, Dave has spent his life struggling  to blend his Korean roots and his very American upbringing. The family joins a conservative church that embraces a strict, rule-based faith, and they try to navigate life as one of the few mixed-raced families in their community. But when tragedy strikes, tearing the family apart, Dave is forced to face long- buried secrets that he can no longer ignore.   As he explores his family’s difficult past, he confronts his own pain and the persistent feelings of not quite fitting in either in America or his mother’s home country. And when a DNA test ultimately reveals...
Request Code : ZLIBIO4387629
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Year:
2024
Publisher:
Worthy
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781546003236
ISBN:
9781546003250,9781546003236

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