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At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Philip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night.

Tuey has always known, to some extent, what her future would hold. Marked as a “breeder” from an early age, she gets the rare honor of being one of the only humans on Earth allowed to reproduce, and all the immense responsibility of continuing the human race that comes with it, of course. Now that the time has come to choose her partners, however, the reality of her duties are weighing on her. Tuey gets one chance to select the two men she will essentially spend the rest of her life with. She never prepared for how quickly these two men will come to mean the world to her.

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty.