{"product_id":"magical-language-of-others-book-e-j-koh-9781951142278","title":"The Magical Language of Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography\/Memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PEN Open Book Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Magical Language of Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love--letters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history--her grandmother Jun's years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the loss and destruction her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre--and to poetry, as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. Where do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words--in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language--to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Magical Language of Others\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a profound tale of hard-won selfhood and our deep bonds to family, place, and language, introducing--in Eun Ji Koh--a singular, incandescent voice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49700715987217,"sku":"CIN1951142276G","price":6.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49913169707281,"sku":"CIN1951142276VG","price":5.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50993691918609,"sku":"NIN9781951142278","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51692963528977,"sku":"CIN1951142276A","price":4.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52466479431953,"sku":"GOR013659076","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1951142276.jpg?v=1765447921","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/magical-language-of-others-book-e-j-koh-9781951142278","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}