Kang, Jeanhee

Jeanhee Kang was born in South Korea. After being expelled from high school at age sixteen for breaking a taboo, she was shunned by her unforgiving society and forced to run away from home to escape the intolerance. At age eighteen, in 1975, she came to the United States to find her second chance with only forty dollars in her pocket. Her memoir, Run Away: One Woman's Story of Resilience, the story of her heart wrenching journey, doesn't spare the reader any of the agonizing details of her childhood, nor does it hold back all she overcame to realize her dreams. Ms. Kang dedicates her inspirati...