I finished the eBook of The Picture Bride written by Lee Guem-Yi a few days ago. The story is about a girl named Willow who lives with her mother now that her father has passed. A match maker tells her that her husband is a landowner, clothes grow on trees, and she will be able to go to school. None of those things are true. The author is the daughter of a woman like Willow. Willow is unwilling to share how gullible she was. Willow wants her daughter to do better than she does. Willow doesn't care if the daughter wants to study dance in Michigan with her boyfriend. Willow wants her daughter to study here in Hawaii. The relationship is so strained the daughter goes to live with her Aunt. The Aunt isn't family by blood. The Aunt is another picture bride who came from Korea to meet a man who wasn't at all like what the matchmaker said. This story was fascinating because as it unfolds, why Willow annoys her daughter turns from unreasonable to reasonable.
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