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From Goodreads:
Margot Lee’s mother, Mina, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to 26-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother.
Interwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she’s barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.
Rapid Rating: Moderate.
Profanity includes 5 uses of strong language, around 15 instances of moderate profanity, about 10 uses of mild language, and 20 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content references people having sex but no details. Violence includes an attempted rape, no details; a physical fight; a woman’s death; a man is killed and his body mutilated by animals; references to a woman being abused by her husband.
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