“A trip. A fall. A horrible way to die. To have survived all those traumas, those hardships – a war, an orphanage, immigration, being a single mother in a foreign country – only to die by something as mundane as a slipper or a shoe. It was terrible. It was all so very terrible.”

“A trip. A fall. A horrible way to die. To have survived all those traumas, those hardships – a war, an orphanage, immigration, being a single mother in a foreign country – only to die by something as mundane as a slipper or a shoe. It was terrible. It was all so very terrible.”

— Nancy Jooyoun Kim