Things You Don’t Know … All of It Lies Inside of Books: An Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner E. J. Koh
When I was fifteen, my parents returned to South Korea and left me behind with my brother in America. My mother started writing me letters in Korean, a language I could not fully understand at the time. Over a decade after she wrote me, I translated her letters into English. In one letter, she writes: …