The Picture Bride by Lee Geum-yi

Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and
transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The
Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship - a must
read!" - Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Your husband is a landowner," they told her.
"Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees."
"You will be able to go to school."
Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture
bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does
all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't
long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who
never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the escalation of the
Korean independence movements, unified in goal, but divergent in action,
which threaten to split theHawaiian Korean community and divide Willow's
family and friends.
Braving the rough waters of these tumultuous years, Willow forges ahead,
creating new dreams through her own blood, sweat, and tears; working (...)

LEE GEUM-YI was born in 1962, in her grandmother's house in the small,
mountainous village of Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. She became enthralled
with the charms of storytelling early on, having spent her childhood under the
influence of her grandmother's bedtime stories. Since then, Lee has published
more than fifty books in South Korea, and her work has been translated
around the world, including The Picture Bride, her first novel to be published in
English. Beloved by readers and literary critics alike, many of her books have
been adapted into TV series, musicals, and webtoons. Lee Geum-yi lives in
Seoul, South Korea, with her husband, son, and her old rescue dog, Lulu. AN
SEONJAE (translator) has lived in Korea since 1980. He was born in Cornwall
in 1942, and since 1969 has been a member of the Community of Taize,
where he is known as Brother Anthony. He has published some 50 volumes of
translated Korean poetry, as well as the translations of several Korean novels.

Tor
On Sale: Oct 10/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages
9781250808677 • $24.99 • pb
Fiction / Asian American