Joan Sung is a Korean American daughter of immigrants who writes about her journey into uncovering her Asian American identity.
Joan Sung
Author
Kinda Korean
Joan Sung was never privy to her family secrets until her mother felt she was ready for them. But every time, it was like a grenade going off in her life that caused her to question who she really was as an Asian American woman.
Kinda Korean is a deeply heart-felt and, at times, humorous memoir about Sung's painful coming-of-age as a Korean American daughter of immigrants. It is a tale of struggle, generational trauma, and finding one’s racial identity. Sung explores the deep desire to be accepted by a society that perpetually makes her feel like an outsider. Feeling either too Korean or too westernized, she struggles to reconcile the two identities.
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