In “Stone Angels,” a Korean-American Confronts Atrocity and Generational Silence - Electric Literature

In “Stone Angels,” a Korean-American Confronts Atrocity and Generational Silence - Electric Literature

Reeling from a bitter divorce and grieving the loss of her mother by suicide, Angelina Lee leaves the U.S. and her children for a summer to travel to Korea, her cultural homeland. Longing to rekindle a connection to a place that shaped her own history and to better understand her mother, Angelina instead finds herself feeling fractured and full of questions. Who had her mother been before moving to the U.S. from Korea? What grief had her mother …