Into This World by Sybil Baker
Brand: Engine Books
Product Description
The answering machine picked up after the fourth ring. Are you my father On the day Allison Morehouse walks off her job her sister Mina calls from Korea frantic and in tears. Determined to discover the truth about her adopted sister Allison flies to Seoul yet Minaand Koreaare nothing like Allison imagines. Over the next three months Allison and Mina will unearth thirty years of family secretsand Allison will discover in Mina the sister she never embraced and in herself the stronger woman she can be. This story of sisterhood betrayal and a tangled history of love and deception will carry you halfway around the world and deep into the hearts of two sisters whose fates were shaped by a longlost love and the lies it spawned... and the history of a country and a man they never understood. Sybil Baker is a startlingly good writer. The big cities and small villages of Korea feel alive on every page. And if you think theres nothing fresh to say about the fragility of family bonds read Into This World. Only in the besttold stories like this one may we measure and forgive one another and ourselves. Nance Van Winckel author of No Starling. Vivid writing compels us to make this journey through the streets and temples of Seoul. Bakers fresh and graceful plotting fuels the readers hunger to know what will happen next to these sisters in a family and a country torn apart by the past. Jane Bradley author of You Believers A story of one familys secret history glimpsed through the eyes of two estranged sisters Allison a troubled woman still grieving the loss of her unborn child and Mina a halfKorean expatriate in search of her shadowy past. Beautifully told Sybil Baker weaves a lush finely wrought tale of two daughters in search of love two sisters in search of forgiveness in the middle of a foreign land. Cathy Holton author of Summer in the South show more
Condition : New
Author : Sybil Baker
Weight : 369
Publisher : Engine Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781938126017
ISBN10 : 1938126017
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20120614
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : 208 Pages
Dimensions : 203 X 132 X 18