~ Trade Paperback

~ New Release - 2024

Eleven-year-old Miyoung seizes the chance to get out of her small farming village near Pyongyang to  live with her older sister in Japan, but with Japan occupying Korea and anti-Korean sentiment rising every day, they realize that passing as Japanese is the key to survival.  Changing her name to Miyoko, and finding her calling as a nurse, years slip by, causing Miyoung's self-identity to slip away . . . 

Inspired by the life of Rosa Kwon Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family making it a wonderful choice for fans of Min Jin Lee, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and/or Yaa Gyasi.

“In straightforward prose, Easton novelizes events that will compel readers seeking themes of identity, ‘passing’ in a different culture, immigration, and occupation.” -- Booklist