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  • ISBN: 9781324035510
  • ISBN: 132403551X
  • Physical Description: 292 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]

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Subject: Choi, Jennifer Hope.
Koreans > United States > Biography.
Korean Americans > Biography.
Mothers and daughters > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.
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