Description: During the final years of the Japanese Occupation, Gui-yong and Eum-chun strike gold by finding a love as sweet as sticky rice. But their love for each other and for their secretly adopted daugh- ter is not enough, as they must soon accept the impossible--a mistress moving in to bear Gui-yong the male child deemed necessary in a society still smoldering in Confucianism.
Brief description: Maija Rhee Devine is a write whose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Boulevard, North American Review, The Kenyon Review, and various anthologies. A Korean-born writer, she holds a BA in English from Sogang University in Seoul and an MA in English from St. Louis University. Writing honors include an NEA grant and nominations for a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Award. The author is married to Michael J. Devine, the director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, MO.
Review Quotes: "A complex, uniquely Korean love story that shouldn't be missed." -- Kirkus Reviews "Kirkus Reviews"