{"product_id":"the-magical-language-of-others-a-memoir-1","title":"The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir","description":"Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography\/Memoir\n\nNamed One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily\n\nLonglisted for the PEN Open Book Award\n\nThe Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love—letters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.\n\nAs Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history—her grandmother Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the loss and destruction her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre—and to poetry, as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. Where do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words—in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language—to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love?\n\nThe Magical Language of Others weaves a profound tale of hard-won selfhood and our deep bonds to family, place, and language, introducing—in Eun Ji Koh—a singular, incandescent voice.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1947793381\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1947793381.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Koh, E. J.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067474018365,"sku":"BVV.1947793381.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1947793381-0_dd4bd2bb-87f3-425e-9730-eda52c7e60f7.jpg?v=1774647051","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-magical-language-of-others-a-memoir-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}