"A gorgeous achievement."--Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting
story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in
South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean
War kept them apart.
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel
from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities.
Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make
the difficult decision to leave their infant daughter, Inja, behind with
their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.
But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the
separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the
shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn
land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin
desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong
enough to reconnect their family over distance, time, and war? And as
deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be
upended?
Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and
inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty
of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister.
