year of impossible goodbyes

by: Sook Nyul Choi Summary: Imagine tomorrow morning you wake to find out another nation has taken over our country. Your family will be separated, and those of you remaining will be under the control of a cruel police caption, and your families precious valuables are taken away as fast as relatives. Sook Nyul Choi’s Year of Impossible Goodbyes takes place in Korea during 1945. We see the struggles of a nation through the courageous voice of a ten-year-old girl named Sookan. Her mother is impelled to oversee a sock factory, her brothers have been taken to labor camp...