We are pleased to announce the release of Rice Paper Window by Christabel Choi.
Christabel Choi enters South Korea as a student in 1989 with a copy of the Communist Manifesto among the books in her bag. She doesn’t realize that it could get her—or anyone she might lend it to—arrested or disappeared.She soon finds herself the only woman in the company of men in a Buddhist temple boarding house: as an honorary little brother. At the university over the mountain, she realizes her classmates lead the dangerous fight to eliminate the remnants of dictatorship and bring a decisive end to martial law.
This unforgettable memoir is both the coming-of-age story of a sensitive young woman, and the portrait of a country struggling to emerge from decades of occupation, war, and authoritarian rule into one of peace, democracy, and prosperity.
Rice Paper Window is available now in trade paperback and digital editions (and soon in hardcover) from most online booksellers and distributors. Signed editions are also available.