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Song for Another Home

Song for Another Home

Reed, Bora Lee

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1668096323
ISBN13: 9781668096321
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
Pachinko meets Homegoing in this powerful story of family separation and reunion amid love and war from a Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow.

When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But then China joins the war, and they decide to flee their home in Pyongyang despite the freezing temperatures and lack of food. Journeying from the barren, war-torn streets of the North in the winter to the seedy back alleys of the South Korean capital of Seoul in the summer, the family falls in with an unlikely group of miscreants.

Meanwhile, far to the south, Oksoon's cousin Junho seeks refuge at an orphanage for abandoned children. As the institution struggles to keep its doors open, Junho, with his elementary command of English, is tasked with drafting letters to American missionaries and benefactors to ask for money. When the enigmatic director brings her aristocratic niece to the orphanage, Junho finds himself caught between his impulse for survival and his growing affections for the young woman, even though his feelings put him at risk of being expelled from the only safe place he knows.

Movingly rendered, Song for Another Home highlights the power of resilience, the tension between personal dreams and duty to family, and how choices made in a brief moment have consequences that reverberate across time and through generations.

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