In 1977 Carol Zanetti traveled with her then-husband, an itinerant minister, and cruelly abusive father and spouse, and their three young children on an ultimately disastrous year-long mission to South Korea to raise funds for and build a technical training institute for the destitute children of American and European servicemen overseas, a journey that opened her eyes not only to the horrors faced by Amerasian children and young adults abroad, whose suffering and scars eerily mirrored her own, but to the personal demons that had led her to take such a blind leap of faith in the first place,...