Kay's Lucky Coin Variety

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Simon and Schuster, Mar 7, 2017 - Fiction - 288 pages
A bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s.

This haunting coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost sister, forbidden loves, domestic assaults—Mary discovers as she grows up that life is much more complicated than she had ever imagined. Her secret passion for her English teacher is filled with problems and with the arrival of a promising Korean suitor, Joon-Ho, events escalate in ways that she could never have imagined, catching the entire family in a web of deceit and violence.

A unique and imaginative debut novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety evocatively portrays the life of a young Korean Canadian girl who will not give up on her dreams or her family.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
28
Section 4
35
Section 5
44
Section 6
71
Section 7
78
Section 8
90
Section 15
169
Section 16
181
Section 17
194
Section 18
200
Section 19
220
Section 20
225
Section 21
229
Section 22
237

Section 9
97
Section 10
112
Section 11
121
Section 12
133
Section 13
148
Section 14
157
Section 23
242
Section 24
249
Section 25
254
Section 26
260
Section 27
269
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About the author (2017)

Originally from South Korea, Ann Y.K. Choi immigrated to Canada in 1975. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and the Creative Writing Certificate Program at the University of Toronto. Most recently, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at National University in San Diego, California. Her debut novel, Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. The story, set in the 1980s, was inspired by her experiences working in her family-run variety store. A teacher with the York Region District School Board, Ann lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

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