Kay's lucky coin variety : a novel
A Korean girl named Mary grows up in 1980's Toronto. Caught between cultures, she struggles to make her parents understand her need to be Canadian.
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- ISBN: 1476748055
- ISBN: 9781476748054
- Physical Description 275 pages
- Edition Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
- Publisher Toronto, Ontario : Phyllis Bruce Editions ; 2016.
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Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
A bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. This haunting coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost sister, forbidden loves, domestic assaults--Mary discovers as she grows up that life is much more complicated than she had ever imagined. Her secret passion for her English teacher is filled with problems and with the arrival of a promising Korean suitor, Joon-Ho, events escalate in ways that she could never have imagined, catching the entire family in a web of deceit and violence. A unique and imaginative debut novel, Kay's Lucky Coin Variety evocatively portrays the life of a young Korean Canadian girl who will not give up on her dreams or her family.