I really enjoyed this book because it was very intense and it kept me reading to see what would happen next. Sookan is the main character along with mother, Inchun, grandfather, Kisa, and Aunt Tiger. She tries to escape the Russians in Northern Korea and make it to freedom below the 38th parallel with her mother and Inchun. The family is separated half way to the south. They are helpless and alone until the kindness of an elderly man helps them make it to the south.
I liked this book because the author used a lot of detail when she wrote. I like how she explains the way things feel, taste, and what she sees. I am glad that the family ends up together in the end. The story is about hope and love that kept the families going through the hardest of times.
I would love to have this book in my classroom. I liked reading So Far From the Bamboo Grove and this book one after the other because it gave me great insight into the two different lives of a Korean child and a Japanese child. I would definitely have my students read both novels and talk about the differences and similarities that the two girls had in common.
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