Jamie Zerndt
ASIN: B00C2UY052
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 271
"Very occasionally you pick up a book and from the very first page you know you are reading something quite special." -Book Viral"The characters are thoroughly engrossing." -Kirkus ReviewsSet against the backdrop of the 2002 World Cup and rising anti-American sentiment due to a deadly tank accident involving two young Korean girls, The Korean Word For Butterfly is told from three alternating points-of-view:Billie, the young wanna-be poet looking for adventure with her boyfriend who soon finds herself questioning her decision to travel so far from the comforts of American life;Moon, the ex K-pop band manager who now works at the English school struggling to maintain his sobriety in hopes of getting his family back;And Yun-ji , a secretary at the school whose new feelings of resentment toward Americans may lead her to do something she never would have imagined possible.The Korean Word For ...