Quiet Odyssey – A Pioneer Korean Woman in America Lee Chan Yoo Hardback

Quiet OdysseyA Pioneer Korean Woman in America\nAuthor(s): Mary Paik Lee, Sucheng Chan, David K. Yoo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295746739, 978-0295746739\nSynopsis\nMary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in the early twentieth century, working as farm laborers, cooks, janitors, and miners. Lee recounts racism on the playground and the ravages of mercury mining on her fathers health, but also entrepreneurial successes and hardships surmounted with grace.\n\nWith a new foreword by David K. Yoo, this edition reintroduces Quiet Odyssey to readers interested in Asian American history and immigration studies. .