After some time, she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. Until the day that Elizabeth’s grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family, and executed her in front of her daughter.Įlizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul. Yet there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother and daughter. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’
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