{"product_id":"wanderers-curse-a-memoir","title":"Wanderer's Curse: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Jennifer Hope Choi first stumbled upon the \"curse\" known as yeokmasal--an allegedly inheritable affliction causing one to roam farther and farther from home--she immediately consulted her mother. \"Oh yeah,\" Umma quipped. \"I have that.\" Technically this wasn't a revelation. Since 2007, the no-nonsense open-heart surgery nurse had moved suddenly from the Golden State to the Last Frontier, shuttling over the next decade through seven states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor much of her adulthood, Choi had fancied herself nothing like her immigrant mother, late-blooming vagabond spirit and all--until life in Brooklyn imploded, spurring her to relocate to South Carolina and reckon with startling truths. Artmaking had left her in debt, single, and jobless. Questions hovered, gathering ragged like fractus clouds: Was it time to give up writing? Would she ever have a place of her own to call home? Or was she doomed to bunk up with Umma in the Deep South indefinitely?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis probing memoir follows Choi through her many former homes, from a crumbling Chinatown tenement to a haunted museum in Georgia. Connections emerge, between her curious trajectory and idiosyncratic Korean identity narratives: a mystical Korean dog breed, pro golfers, modern Korean cults, the four pillars of destiny, and Korean American art. One question lingers throughout her search: What might be gained from living in residence with uncertainty?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with whip-smart sensibility, \u003cem\u003eThe Wanderer's Curse\u003c\/em\u003e is an electric mother-daughter story, exploring ideas of belonging, self-determination, and possibility, leaving readers to wonder what we take with us generation to generation, what we wish we could leave behind, and how we move on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Hope Choi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46332868526316,"sku":"9781324035510","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781324035510.jpg?v=1743572495","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/wanderers-curse-a-memoir","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}