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2000s: What would you sacrifice for a different life?
Sublimation
What you need to know before your trail
When you emigrate, you leave a version of yourself behind. Literally. One instance crosses the border; the other instance stays trapped behind it.
Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, synchronize their lives and minds in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Other instances, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at age ten and never speak to their other selves again.
With a life of her own in New York, Rose never imagined she’d return to Korea. Then her grandfather dies and Soyoung, her Korean instance, summons her home for the funeral. But Soyoung’s motives aren’t as innocent as Rose imagined, and the consequences of Rose’s return to Seoul will change her forever.
Travel Guide
Seoul and New York
What would you do if you could literally split yourself in two and then one version of yourself lives in one city and culture and the other in a different city and culture.
The two cities of Seoul and New York are the real key to the story here – not the individual settings necessarily but the two very different cultures.
How do you move and adapt between cultures?
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Sublimation
Destination/location: Seoul, New York Author/guide: Isabel J Kim Departure Time: 2000s
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