Clay Walls


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A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’sKoreatownA Penguin ClassicKim Ronoung Gloria Hahn, 1926�) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S.