May Women & Words - "The Hundred Choices Department Store" by Ginger Park

Please join Ellevate DC for our May Women & Words discussion surrounding "The Hundred Choices Department Store" by Ginger Park

Ginger will be attending IN PERSON to lead our book club discussion! She is local to the DMV area!

It’s 1944. The Pangs own The Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but only when she is sent to work in the dreaded dye factory – a place deemed Hell’s Chamber by her older brother, Hoon - does she experience spiritual death. 

It is here where she meets Song-ho, an orphaned boy, and unbeknownst to her, the brief encounter will prove fateful. When Japan loses the war, Russian soldiers capture her beloved hometown and The Hundred Choices Department Store, leaving the city in ruin. With the Korean War looming, Miyook must take a dangerous flight south, across the 38th parallel now guarded by the newly formed North Korean Army. Here, once again, she encounters Song-ho, an event that will change the course of her life.

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WHAT: Women & Words May Discussion

BOOK: "The Hundred Choices Department Store" by Ginger Park

COST: FREE

DISCUSSION: May 19th @ 7PM

LOCATION: IN PERSON | Politics & Prose | 5015 Connecticut Ave NW

QUESTIONS: washingtondc@ellevatenetwork.com