Share

The Waiting

Download The Waiting PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Waiting by : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Download or read book The Waiting written by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother’s story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then 70 years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from Korean by award-winning Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim’s Grass, which won the Krause Essay Prize, the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Harvey Award, and appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.

The Waiting

Download The Waiting PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2014-05-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Waiting by : Cathy LaGrow

Download or read book The Waiting written by Cathy LaGrow. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable true story that will touch your heart and make you believe in love’s enduring legacy, and in the power of prayer. In 1928, 16-year-old Minka was on a picnic in the woods when she was assaulted and raped. And suddenly this innocent farm girl—who still thought the stork brought babies—was pregnant. The baby was secretly born, named Betty Jane, and given up for adoption. For decades, Minka wrote letters trying to get news of her daughter; she kept loving and praying for her, even though she never dared believe they would meet again. Until nearly eighty years later, when Minka whispered her secret, impossible prayer for the first time: Lord, I’d like to see Betty Jane before I die. I promise I won’t bother her or interrupt her life. I just want to lay eyes on her. Unbeknownst to Minka, that very same day, a judge was releasing the sealed adoption records to her 77-year-old daughter. And soon, Minka’s phone would ring. Written by Cathy LaGrow (Minka’s granddaughter), The Waiting brings three generations of this most unusual family together over the course of a century to tell a story of faith that triumphs, forgiveness that sets us free, and love that never forgets.

The Wait

Download The Wait PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 483/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Wait by : DeVon Franklin

Download or read book The Wait written by DeVon Franklin. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.

The Waiting Sky

Download The Waiting Sky PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2012-08-02
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 581/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Waiting Sky by : Lara Zielin

Download or read book The Waiting Sky written by Lara Zielin. This book was released on 2012-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One summer chasing tornadoes could finally change Jane's life for the better Seventeen-year-old Jane McAllister can't quite admit her mother's alcoholism is spiraling dangerously out of control until she drives drunk, nearly killing them and Jane's best friend. Jane has only one place to turn: her older brother Ethan, who left the problems at home years ago for college. A summer with him and his tornado-chasing buddies may just provide the time and space Jane needs to figure out her life and whether it still includes her mother. But she struggles with her anger at Ethan for leaving home and feels guilty--is she also abandoning her mom just when she needs Jane most? The carefree trip turned journey of self-discovery quickly becomes more than Jane bargained for, especially when the devilishly handsome Max steps into the picture.

The Waiting Place

Download The Waiting Place PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2011-06-06
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Waiting Place by : Eileen Button

Download or read book The Waiting Place written by Eileen Button. This book was released on 2011-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most priceless gifts can be discovered while waiting for something else. We all spend precious time just waiting. We wait in traffic, grocery store lines, and carpool circles. We wait to grow up, for true love, and for our children to be born. We even wait to die. But while we work hard at this business of living, life can sometimes feel like one long, boring meeting. Even today, with instant gratification at our techno-laced fingertips, we can’t escape the waiting place. Somehow, in between our texting and tweeting and living and dying, we end up there again and again. In the voice of an old friend or a wise-cracking sister, Eileen Button takes us back to the days of curling irons and camping trips, first loves and final goodbyes, big dreams and bigger reality checks. With heart-breaking candor she calls us to celebrate the tension between what we hope for tomorrow and what we live with today. Chock-full of humor and poignant insights, these stories will make you laugh and cry. They’ll challenge you to enjoy—or at least endure—the now. As Eileen has learned, “To wait is human. To find life in the waiting place, divine.” Come discover miracles in the mundane. Come celebrate life in The Waiting Place.

You may also like...