A Room For Sorrow: Five Short Stories

About the Book

In her five short stories, Dorothy M. Hong celebrates life as she describes young Korean American women meeting the challenges of living a productive immigrant life that may be parallel and analogous to mainstream and provide subcultural components to American literature.

About the Author

A lawyer and artist writes about various segments of young Korean American immigrant life in a fictional short story format in observance of Korean American community effort to adopt to new soil and preserve their cultural milieu and enjoy the legacy of liberty which leaves room for sorrow in what appears to be a diaspora of Koreans into vast American continent that still remains unexamined while interplay of Korean character adds a new ripple and nuance to American literature.