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Jane Park

Biography

Jane Park

Jane Park is a former schoolteacher and an award-winning media producer. Her own fond memories of playing with empty kimchi jars inspired her to write JUNA'S JAR. She’s also the author of picture book OUTSIDE MOM, INSIDE MOM. Jane’s always up for a good adventure, especially ones that involve her kids and their jars. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

Jane Park

Books by Jane Park

by Jane Park - Fiction, Literary

Anne Kim is a lawyer in New York, her success built on forgetting the past. When her father dies, she returns to Edmonton for the funeral and is shocked to discover he was from North Korea and left his brother behind. As she reads the undelivered letters her father wrote to his brother about life in Canada, she is transported back to her childhood in the 1980s and 90s. She recalls the struggles her parents faced as immigrants who ran a grocery store in a rural prairie town. Anne and her brother, Charles, felt the weight of their father’s expectations: Anne was driven to excel and overachieve, whereas Charles rebelled, determined to pursue his own dreams. His rebellion created a rift that culminated in a devastating act, irrevocably shattering their family and leaving Anne overwhelmed by an inescapable guilt.