Hands
You know how in The Addams Family there's the Hand that creeps and crawls over everything independently? Okay—now switch gears because that's the opposite of what hands are like in this novel. (A...
Cars
You know how everyone lusts after the guy with the Porsche because he looks like he's got it all made? Well the characters in this book are no different. They dream about being wealthy… and that...
Heaven
Are you thinking of angels and harps and fluffy white clouds?Left to her own devices, Young Ju would probably be imagining all of those things too, but Young Ju has her parents and Halmoni talking...
Homes
If you want to know how the Parks are doing, all you have to do is track them by their different homes. First you've got the house in Korea that "sits like a hen" (4.22), humble and small, but comf...
Sea/Ocean
We don't want to get all Hemingway on you, but in A Step From Heaven the sea really is kind of how Hemingway imagines it: your greatest foe and your greatest friend. How
we do know? Because Uhmma...