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Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother

Helie Lee

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 1221 Users | 183 Reviews

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Original Title:	Still Life With Rice
ISBN:	0684827115 (ISBN13: 9780684827117)
Edition Language:	English

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“A captivating memoir of a courageous survivor” (Publishers Weekly) and “a window onto the panorama of modern Korean history” (St. Petersburg Times) this is a radiant and engaging story about a young American woman’s discovery about the life of her Korean grandmother.

Helie Lee’s grandmother, Hongyong Baek, came of age in a unified but socially repressive Korea, where she was taught the roles that had been prescribed for her: obedient daughter, demure wife, efficient household manager. Ripped from her home first during the Japanese occupation and again during the bloody civil war that divided her country, Hongyong fought to save her family by drawing from her own talents and values. Over the years she proved her spirit indomitable, providing for her husband children by running a successful restaurant, building a profitable opium business, and eventually becoming adept at the healing art of ch’iryo. When she was forced to leave her country, she moved her family to California, where she reestablished her ch’iryo practice.

Writing in her grandmother’s voice, Helie Lee recreates an individual experience in a unique culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. With wit and verve, she claims her own Korean identity and illuminates the intricate experiences of Asian-American women in this century.

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Title	:	Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother
Author	:	Helie Lee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 8th 1997 by Scribner (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. Asia. History

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4 starsStill Life With Rice is not only a captivating memoir but an extremely timely book in light of what is going on in North Korea. Most of us know little to nothing about North Korea's history. This is a window into the times and events that led up to the Korea we know today. The author writes a "memoir" of her grandmother who was born and raised in a unified Korea near the capital. This is a socially repressive time, when the Japanese controlled the country. As a child, she is taught

A wonderful story about her resilient grandmother!

I LOVED this book!!! Granted, I am biased in my adoration of Korea. This book further clinches that adoration. What a resilient people! The real life aspect of it only makes it more appealing. A wonderful read from start to finish!

Can I give this ten stars?! I'm so completely overwhelmed with love for this book I don't even think I can properly review it.After over a dozen North Korean memoirs of various themes and backgrounds, this may be the one the most powerful books I've read, period. It chronicles the life of a woman growing up in Korea during the Japanese occupation, her life during the war, her amazing escape from north to south of the 38th parallel, and her eventual immigration to America, all told by her

A wonderful story about her resilient grandmother!

I read this book for my book club. At receiving it in the mail, I wasnt all that enthusiastic about reading it, but once I started, I was hooked from the beginning. Each chapter built on the last, but each chapter was in itself a mini story. There is a bit of foul language, and some slightly graphic sex, but overall, this is a fictional biography that opened my eyes to what the people of North Korea experienced before, during and after the Korean War. I had no idea about everything they

I've hemmed and hawed about how I feel about this book. It's a good story, well told. It reads like a morality tale, all the riches they got from the opium trade disappeared like that, land stolen from them as soon as they bought it with the opium money. The hardships and utter stubbornness, the callousness and (overdone in some cases) charity. And to anyone who says Korea is a patriarchy - Ha! Resonates well with Fall of Giants, in that just because you're born into an upper class doesn't