The Stone Home

"In this wrenching intergenerational story of survival, Crystal Hana Kim explores a dark period of South Korean history – the military rule of the 1970s and 1980s, when the government sponsored “welfare facilities” for “vagrants” that in reality were internment camps. As the novel unfolds, Eunju Oh, now in her 40s, reveals long-buried secrets of her horrific experience at one such facility, the Stone Home, to the Korean American daughter of Sangchul, who escaped as a teenager. It makes for a compelling exploration of the intoxicating effects of power and the endurance of the human spirit."