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Finding My Voice

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, foreword by Kat Cho

Korean American Ellen Sung lives in a small Minnesota town and confronts several pressures at once: deciding about college, overt racism, and demanding parents. This edition reissues Marie Myung-Ok Lee's young-adult novel with a new foreword by Kat Cho. Ellen's experiences place family expectations beside the discrimination she encounters and the choices she must make about her future, creating a story centered on identity and finding her own voice.

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Themes
Cultural Heritage · Family · Identity · Racism And Prejudice · School
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Soho Press, Incorporated
Published
December 1, 2020
Pages
192
ISBN-13
9781641291972
Language
English
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