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Lee, Marie G. was born on April 25, 1964 in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of William Chae-Sik and Grace Koom-Soon Lee.
(Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. Tha...)
Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota--Land of 10,000 Lakes--and probably 10,000 hicks,too. The Kims are the only Asian family in town, and when Chan and his twin sister, Young, attend high school, it's a blond-haired, blue-eyed whiteout. Chan throws himself into the only game in town--football--and the necessary roughness required to make a player. On the field it means "justifiable violence," but as Chan is about to discover, off the field it's a whole different ballgame . . .Chan Jung Kim has always been popular. But that was when he lived in L.A. and was the star of his soccer team. Now his family’s moved—to a tiny town in Minnesota, where football’s the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian American family before. Desperate to fit in, Chan throws himself into the game—but he feels like an outsider. For the first time in his life, he finds himself thinking about what it really means to be Korean—and what is really important. By turns gripping, painful, funny, and illuminating, Necessary Roughness introduces a major new talent and a fresh young voice to the Harper list. 1997 Best Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) 1998 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)Chan Jung Kim has always been popular. But that was when he lived in L.A. and was the star of his soccer team. Now his family’s moved—to a tiny town in Minnesota, where football’s the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian American family before. Desperate to fit in, Chan throws himself into the game—but he feels like an outsider. For the first time in his life, he finds himself thinking about what it really means to be Korean—and what is really important. By turns gripping, painful, funny, and illuminating, Necessary Roughness introduces a major new talent and a fresh young voice to the Harper list. 1997 Best Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) 1998 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
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In this sequel to FINDING MY VOICE, Ellen Sung arrives at Harvard for her freshman year. There she begins to explore her independence by taking a creative writing course in addition to her pre-med classes, finding a new boyfriend, a Korean-Amer-ican, and becoming close friends with her African-American roommate.
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Although senior year brings romance for Ellen Sung, the lone Korean American in her high school, it also brings pressure from her strict parents to get good grades, as well as bigotry from some of her classmates. Reprint. SLJ. K.
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Lee, Marie G. was born on April 25, 1964 in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of William Chae-Sik and Grace Koom-Soon Lee.
AB, Brown University, 1986.
Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, Witness, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Newsweek, Slate and The New York Times. She has received honors for her work including an O. Henry honorable mention for an adaptation of a chapter from Somebody"s Daughter, and was a recipient of the MacColl Johnson literature fellowship and 2010 Fiction Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches at Brown University.
Lee"s novel, Somebody"s Daughter (2005), is based on her year as a Fulbright Scholar to South of Korea, taking oral histories of Korean birth mothers.
She has been involved in the adoptee community for many years, but Lee herself is not adopted. One of her family members is adopted from of Korea.
(Although senior year brings romance for Ellen Sung, the l...)
(The only Asian in a small American high school, Ellen Sun...)
( In this sequel to FINDING MY VOICE, Ellen Sung arrives ...)
(Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. Tha...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Authors Guild, Authors Leage of America, Asian American Arts Alliance, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, National Coalition Against Censorship, Asian American Writer's Workshop (vice president, board directors, 1992).