“I understand now why I had been mummified by an unspoken shame that began with my mother, grandmother and likely many women before them, forming a chain into our family’s unexamined past. I was about to embark on a healing journey… Gradually, after having been gently received, our initially halting stories would be unpacked and processed. They would make us new, make us happier and bring us closer. Before long, we would speak courageously and boldly, even laughing at ourselves—and find love, forgiveness and life-giving liberation.”
— Kyoung Mi Choi, from her forthcoming memoir “The Child Behind the Bushes”