I found myself drawn into the world of Sunja in Korea in the early 1900's. The book follows four generations Sunja's family. The book starts out with an aging fisherman and his wife who live in Yeongdo, Busan, Korea. Only one of their children survived, Hoonie, a cripple with a cleft palate. The local matchmaker found favor in the hardworking family and found a wife for Hoonie. Hoonie and Yangjin were married. Sunja was their their only child. Thus unravels an amazing story of heartache, trial, love, deception, hope, and many twists and turns.
I really enjoyed the book. It was hard to put down. BEWARE, this book is not appropriate for children or teenagers as their is graphic sexual interaction descriptions. I so wish that the sexual content would have been left out because this book would be excellent for older children or teenagers to read if not for the sexual content. The book contains such good written description of life over a generational timeframe and a sense of what life was like in Korea and Japan in the early 1900's til about 1990. The author does an amazing job at pulling the reader in. A great read.
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