Linda Sue Park's 1999 first novel SeeSaw Girl is a melancholy study of gender and coming-of-age in seventeenth-century Joseon Korea, with glimpses of European travelers, elite life, painting, embroidery, and how we make do with what we can—oh, and just how awesome Korean seesaws are!
Tag: Author: Linda Sue Park
Reading “A Single Shard” by Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park's Newbery Medal-winning 2001 novel A Single Shard is mundane, quiet, cerebral, and touching. One of the few novels from my childhood I regularly return to, it is a brilliant, emotional examination of pottery, poverty, and community in 13th century Korea.
Genre Fantasies 