Comfort Woman(1st Edition) by NoraOkjaKeller Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Penguin Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-14-026335-0, ISBN: 0-14-026335-7
""Comfort women"--that dumbing-down euphemism for the almost one quarter of a million Asian women who were made sexual slaves of the Japanese military during World War Two. Comfort Woman, the title of Nora Okja Keller's brave and utterly compelling first novel, tells of one such woman, the Korean Akiko, and her first-generation Hawaiian -American daughter Beccah. Narrated in their two voices, what is harrowingly pieced together is the h ..."
Fox Girl(Reprint) by NoraOkjaKeller Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-200196-7, ISBN: 0-14-200196-1
"Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman, tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War. At the center of the tale are two teenage girls—Hyun Jin and Sookie, a teenage prostitute kept by an American soldier—who form a makeshift family with Lobetto, a lost boy who scrapes together a living running errands and pimping for neighborhood girls. Both horrifying and moving, Fox Girl at once r ..."
Comfort Woman(Updated) by NoraOkjaKeller Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Virago Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-86049-874-9, ISBN: 1-86049-874-4
""On the fifth anniversary of my father's death, my mother confessed to his murder". Beccah, a young Korean-American girl growing up in Hawaii, uncovers the dark secrets of her mother's dislocated past, from being sold into prostitution, to the death of her first child and her unhappy marriage."
Comfort Woman(1st Edition) by NoraOkjaKeller Hardcover, 213 Pages, Published 1997 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-87269-5, ISBN: 0-670-87269-5
"Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 213 pages; Description: 213 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Korean Americans--Fiction. Mothers and daughters--Fiction. Hawaii--Fiction. Form/Genre: Domestic fiction."
Intersecting Circles The Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose (Bamboo Ridge) by Marie Hara, NoraOkjaKeller Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 1999 by Bamboo Ridge Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-910043-59-5, ISBN: 0-910043-59-0
"Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo of 4th and Cherry, she stops and
says, You understand me with something like conviction or insanity, but anyway,
she's passionate and scary all at once, the way my feet are overgrown, about the
year I ate avocados but didn't shave my armpits, how some women make love
while others just fuck but I, of course, do both, Saffron, you understand me. My
mother named me a color I can never really ..."
"After the Korean War, three young people--Hyung Jin, a girl disowned by her parents; Sookie, a teenage prostitute; and Lobetto, a lost boy who pimps for neighborhood girls--desperately long to come to America and start a new life."
Comfort Woman(Updated) by NoraOkjaKeller Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Virago ISBN-13: 978-1-86049-812-1, ISBN: 1-86049-812-4
""Comfort women"--that dumbing-down euphemism for the almost one quarter of a million Asian women who were made sexual slaves of the Japanese military during World War Two. Comfort Woman, the title of Nora Okja Keller's brave and utterly compelling first novel, tells of one such woman, the Korean Akiko, and her first-generation Hawaiian -American daughter Beccah. Narrated in their two voices, what is harrowingly pieced together is the h ..."
Comfort Woman(1st Edition) A Novel by NoraOkjaKeller Hardcover, 213 Pages, Published 1999 by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3046-8, ISBN: 0-7145-3046-8
""Comfort women"--that dumbing-down euphemism for the almost one quarter of a million Asian women who were made sexual slaves of the Japanese military during World War Two. Comfort Woman, the title of Nora Okja Keller's brave and utterly compelling first novel, tells of one such woman, the Korean Akiko, and her first-generation Hawaiian -American daughter Beccah. Narrated in their two voices, what is harrowingly pieced together is the h ..."
"Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies. This special issue of Bamboo Ridge (No. 82) is guest edited by Nora Okja Keller (Comfort Woman, Fox Girl), Brenda Kwon, Sun Namkung, Gary Pak (The Watcher of Waipuna, The Ricepaper Airplane), and Cathy Song (Picture Bride, The Land of Bliss). Contributors include HONOLULU Magazine editor-at-large David K. Choo, Ploughshares editor Don Lee (Yellow), Chris McKinney (The Tattoo, Th ..."
Fox Girl by NoraOkjaKeller 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-4406-2850-4, ISBN: 1-4406-2850-5
"What does that have to do with you leaving me?” “Do you feel sorry for the fox,
Hyun Jin?” she asked. “I don't know,” I said, irritated. “Sure. If that's the right
answer, I'll feel sorry for her. Maybe that fox girl had a family to feed or something."