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- Free food for millionaires / by Lee, Min Jin;
- Subjects: Children of immigrants; Korean Americans; Women college graduates;
- © c2007., Warner Books,
- Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea / by Demick, Barbara.;
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Koreans; Koreans;
- © 2009., Spiegel & Grau,
- Nuclear family : a novel / by Han, Joseph,author.;
- "Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could possess Jacob to do something so stupid? The Chos don't know that Jacob has been literally possessed by his wily grandfather's ghost, don't know that Jacob is hiding his bisexuality and confusion over his identity as a Korean-American; they don't know that Grace is constantly stoned and plotting her escape from the island and her family's expectations. The children don't know the burdens of their immigrant parents. Joseph Han draws from Korean myth to explore the generational trauma experienced by families shattered by partition, and the impacts of American imperialism on the Korean peninsula. Nuclear family is a spectacular debut novel -- at once devastating and hilarious -- about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home"--
- Subjects: Ghost stories.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Adult children of immigrants; Bisexuals; Family secrets; Identity (Psychology); Korean American families; Korean Americans;
- I'm laughing because I'm crying : a memoir / by Mayer, Youngmi,author.;
- ""Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole." So went the saying Youngmi Mayer's mother would recite-a saying Youngmi didn't take to but lived through in every situation: laughing and crying at a funeral, laughing and crying at her family's traumatic history, even laughing and crying as her mother berated her for taking too long to put her socks back on. And it is with her mother's words and Youngmi's brash wit and irreverence that takes readers through I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying and into the complexities of her identity as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. It takes us through an adolescence where she has to parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like Jesus and also The Bee Gees (all of them). And, she takes us through a century of colonialism and war in Korea and how that has shaped her family and now, a hundred years later, still affects her in New York City as a queer single mom, all the while interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality. And she may make you cry, but most of all, she wants you to laugh. Because one cannot exist without the other. And like a yin and yang, this duality is reflected in this whip-smart, heart-wrenching, and disarmingly funny memoir. So, here it is. She hopes it makes you laugh while crying. And she hopes it makes you grow hair out of your butthole"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mayer, Youngmi; Mayer, Youngmi.; Comedians; Korean Americans; Multiracial people; Multiracial people; Podcasters; Women comedians;
- Finding Junie Kim / by Oh, Ellen.;
- A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.Ages 8-12.LSC
- Subjects: Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans; Grandparent and child; Racism; Middle schools;
- The picture bride / by Yi, Kŭm-i,1962-author.; Anthony,of Taizé, Brother,1942-translator.; translation of:Yi, Kŭm-i,1962-Alloha, na ŭi ŏmmadŭl.English.;
- "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees.' 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the escalation of the Korean independence movements, unified in goal, but divergent in action, which threaten to split the Hawaiian Korean community and divide Willow's family and friends. Braving the rough waters of these tumultuous years, Willow forges ahead, creating new dreams through her own blood, sweat, and tears; working tirelessly toward a better life for her family and loved ones"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Koreans; Mail order brides; Women immigrants;
- The incendiaries / by Kwon, R. O.,author.;
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; College students; Korean American women; Cults; Bombings; Terrorists;
- Minari [videorecording] / by Han, Ye-ri,1984-actor.; Yun, Yŏ-jŏng,1947-actor.; Cho, Noel Kate,actor.; Chung, Lee Isaac,1978-film director,screenwriter.; Cox, Darryl,1955-actor.; Gardner, Dede,film producer.; Haze, Scott,actor.; Kim, Alan S.,2012-actor.; Kleiner, Jeremy,film producer.; Milne, Lachlan,director of photography.; Mosseri, Emile(Composer),composer (expression); Oh, Christina,film producer.; Patton, Will,actor.; Yeun, Steven,actor.; Yoon, Harry,1971-editor of moving image work.; A24 (Firm),presenter.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Plan B (Firm),production company.;
- Director of photography, Lachlan Milne ; editor, editor, Harry Yoon ; music, Emile Mosseri.Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, Darryl Cox, Esther Moon, Will Patton, Tina Parker, Yuh-Jung Youn, Noel Kate Cho.A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13 (some thematic elements and a rude gesture).Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Coming-of-age films.; Families; Farms; Grandmothers; Korean Americans;
- For private home use only.
- Mindy Kim makes a splash / by Lee, Lyla.; Ho, Dung.;
- "Mindy Kim can't wait to learn how to swim with her best friend, Sally! But during her first swim lesson, Mindy isn't so sure she can keep up. With a little help from Sally and Theodore the Mutt, can Mindy learn how to make a splash?"--Provided by publisher.Ages 6-9.LSC
- Subjects: Kim, Mindy (Fictitious character); Korean Americans; Swimming;
- Her good side / by Weatherspoon, Rebekah,author.;
- "Told in alternating voices, awkward teenagers Bethany and Jacob must navigate blossoming feelings after agreeing to date each other as practice for the real deal"--014+.
- Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; Dating (Social customs); High schools; Korean Americans; Schools; African Americans; Dating; High schools; Korean Americans; Schools;
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