{"id":1826,"date":"2007-05-01T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:54:09","slug":"secondhand-world-by-katherine-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/secondhand-world-by-katherine-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondhand World by Katherine Min [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Secondhand-World1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30387\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Secondhand-World1.jpg\" alt=\"Secondhand World\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Don\u2019t start this at night because you won\u2019t get any sleep until you\u2019ve finished the final page. And still, the characters will linger on. Min\u2019s aching debut novel tells the story of Isadora Myung Hee Sohn \u2013 named after the dancer Isadora Duncan and called \u201cIsa\u201d \u2013 the daughter of Korean American immigrants struggling to find their place. The book opens with an orphaned Isa, having survived the fire that killed her parents, and moves backwards in time to reveal bit by bit the troubled, tragedy-filled lives of a family torn apart by misunderstandings, displacement, and loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2007\/05\/secondhand-world.jpg\" alt=\"secondhand-world\" title=\"secondhand-world\" width=\"125\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1829\" \/>Don\u2019t start this at night because you won\u2019t get any sleep until you\u2019ve finished the final page. And still, the characters will linger on. Min\u2019s aching debut novel tells the story of Isadora Myung Hee Sohn \u2013 named after the dancer Isadora Duncan and called \u201cIsa\u201d \u2013 the daughter of Korean American immigrants struggling to find their place. The book opens with an orphaned Isa, having survived the fire that killed her parents, and moves backwards in time to reveal bit by bit the troubled, tragedy-filled lives of a family torn apart by misunderstandings, displacement, and loss. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,38,6535,31],"tags":[1968,6608,58,75,10,51,25,3385,13,39,3386],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-korean-american","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-death","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-katherine-min","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-secondhand-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Secondhand World by Katherine Min [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/secondhand-world-by-katherine-min\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Secondhand World by Katherine Min [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don\u2019t start this at night because you won\u2019t get any sleep until you\u2019ve finished the final page. 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