Ten Thousand Sorrows

Women's Biographies

Author: Elizabeth Kim

I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the….Read More

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