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Author: Eve J. Chung

A Book Brunch Event

The author discusses her novel "The Young Will Remember" with Radha Lin Chaddah. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee and pastries. Registration requested, not required.

About the Book (from the publisher): 

A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of "Daughters of Shandong."

When I found the courage to lift my head, I expected to stare down the barrel of a gun, but instead there was a woman in front of me, the back of her white skirt embroidered with columns of yellow chrysanthemums.

1950. It’s the coldest winter in decades, and twenty-eight-year-old Chinese American journalist Ellie Chang is on a military flight to cover a battle in the mountains of North Korea when her plane is shot down.

As she emerges from the fallen aircraft onto an icy field surrounded by the enemy, Ellie is sure it’s the end, certain she’ll never make it home to her parents…until a woman pushes her way through the crowd and claims Ellie as the lost daughter that she’s been searching for since the last war ended. Never mind that Ellie doesn’t speak a word of Korean.

Ellie is taken in by her rescuer—a woman who calls herself “Emma”—and the Paks, a pastor’s family. She knows she can’t stay and yet there’s no way she’ll survive on her own.

Emma’s decision to claim Ellie, and Ellie’s choice to take her hand will connect their lives forever.

About the Author:

Eve J. Chung is a Taiwanese American lawyer and women's human rights specialist. She has worked on a range of issues, including torture, sexual violence, contemporary forms of slavery, and discriminatory legislation. Her writing is inspired by social justice movements, and the continued struggle for equality and fundamental freedoms worldwide. She lives in New York with her husband, two children and two dogs.

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About the Moderator:

Radha Lin Chaddah was born in London to an East Indian father and a Malaysian Chinese mother, she grew up in Kenya, the UK, and the US. After earning medical, law, and public health degrees, she and family have lived across the globe before settling in Philadelphia. Her first novel, "And the Ancestors Sing," was published earlier this year and she is working on her next writing project.

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