Please Love Umma

by grace kim

Overview

Please Love Umma is a story about an eleven-year old Korean-American girl named Jenna Kim, who experiences the dichotomy of being raised under an overprotective mother and an understanding father, parents who both love her very much but don't seem to love each other at all. Through her experiences, she struggles and overcomes issues with death, culture, and religion as she copes with her own anxiety issues. Jenna's mother, Umma, has died at the beginning of the story, and the novel unfolds as she reflects on the past year. She explores the relationships within her family and begins to see that, having been so close to her father her whole life, her mother had always been left out. But it's too late to turn back time.

In this beautifully bittersweet coming-of-age story, author Gracie Kim weaves an unforgettable tale of identity, love, and the many pains involved in growing up. The setting is the Koreatown district of Los Angeles, California before and during the Los Angeles Riots.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157504212
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	660 KB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Gracie Kim writes fictional stories stemming from her own experiences as a Korean-American born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She descends from two generations of writers: her paternal grandfather, a poet, and her father, an author and a poet.

In her spare time, she loves reading, writing poetry, and cooking. She is also an activist with an organization that fights sex trafficking in the Korean community.

Her favorite authors are John Steinbeck, Eleanor Estes, Kate Dicamillo, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, and John Milton. Her favorite playwrights are William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.

Kim received her bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and in her subsequent career has worked in accounting and human resources. She also studied the Meisner Technique under William Alderson and has a passion for theatrical arts.