This book proves into hearsays surrounding Koreans in America. My writings illustrate how race has impacted my life and other Koreans vis-a-vis white Americans. My short stories identify my disillusionments with some of the disingenuous elements of racial integration. My short stories touch upon issues ranging from racism, sexism, lookism, abortion, homosexuality, and anti-social behaviors. Anti-social behaviors towards a person of racial minority range from a certain curt unfriendliness to maintain distance to abhorrent crimes perpetrated against a person of racial minority in order to...

In Gina Park Comes to America Dorothy Hong offers fictional account of adventures of Gina Park, a Korean girl. In the three cartoons we see Gina growing up from a small child to a junior high school girl. These cartoons give a glimpse of Gina's courageous and friendly character, mixed with playfulness. The first cartoon is about what happened after playing hide and seek in Korea, the second is a trip to her grandmother's and the third is a trip to Finger Lakes to have a picnic with her mother. The fourth illustrated short story is a fictional account of young woman named Carol whose romance...

In her five short stories, Dorothy M. Hong celebrates life as she describes young Korean American women meeting the challenges of living a productive immigrant life that may be parallel and analogous to mainstream and provide subcultural components to American literature.

My impetus for this book is that I lost my Korean friends and relatives who had been missing. As I recall when I resided in Seoul, South Korea during my elementary school days I lost my neighbors who went to Africa for business opportunities and for conference meetings. I remember my childhood neighborhood friends were left with lived in maid and grandma, getting by and sustaining on eggs from hen farm diet in a big old mansion type house. One time they showed me a fabric bag of citron rocks from Africa with no sign of their parents coming back home to Korea. I lost track of things because...