{"id":42851,"date":"2017-10-23T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42851"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:54:20","slug":"gone-girl-violin-life-unstrung-min-kym-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/gone-girl-violin-life-unstrung-min-kym-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42299\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Gone-by-Min-Kym-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Gone-by-Min-Kym-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Gone-by-Min-Kym.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>Kym\u2019s first violin was a paper cutout copied from an encyclopedia; her first actual instrument was a \u201charsh, factory-made thing\u201d on which she immediately taught herself \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.\u201d By her first or second lesson, Kym knew playing the violin &#8220;was not simply <em>for<\/em> me, but it <em>was<\/em> me.&#8221; Asthma attacks caused by the bow&#8217;s rosin couldn&#8217;t deter her.<\/p>\n<p>A prodigy by 7, Kym hopped among countries, teachers, and instruments until she found her &#8220;soulmate&#8221; at 21 in her 1696 Stradivarius \u2013 which enabled her, she&#8217;s convinced, to achieve solo recordings, worldwide bookings, and international acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>When her Strad was stolen from a London caf\u00e9, the thieves took not only her instrument, but her voice, even her sanity. She spent years &#8220;unstrung,&#8221; until she finally believes what a pianist friend insists: that she is the artist, not the violin.<\/p>\n<p>Listeners who recall Kym&#8217;s appearances on the news might find Rebecca Yeo&#8217;s younger-sounding voice somewhat jarring in comparison to the deeper-toned Kym. More disconcerting is Yeo&#8217;s unfamiliarity with Korean, evidenced by mispronunciations of Korean words peppered throughout British Korean Kym&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: For audiences previously unaware of Kym&#8217;s experiences, Yeo&#8217;s narration proves serviceable; for music or language aficionados, print might prove preferable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2017-10-01-2179997.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, October 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kym\u2019s first violin was a paper cutout copied from an encyclopedia; her first actual instrument was a \u201charsh, factory-made thing\u201d on which she immediately taught herself \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.\u201d By her first or second lesson, Kym knew playing the violin &#8220;was not simply for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,330,37,107,20,6535,31],"tags":[6608,58,10,7530,51,25,70,7528,129,672,216,39,7529],"class_list":["post-42851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-british-asian","category-korean","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-gone","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-library-journal","tag-min-kym","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-music","tag-mystery","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-rebecca-yeo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym [in Library Journal] - 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\/gone-girl-violin-life-unstrung-min-kym-library-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym [in Library Journal] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kym\u2019s first violin was a paper cutout copied from an encyclopedia; 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