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The Trip Back Home
The week we went on the trip back home |
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| These are the gifts brought across the ocean to Korea: Leather gloves. An apron with pockets like flowers. A book with pictures and simple words. What is given in return? Simple gifts like these—and so much more. THE TRIP BACK HOME invites us to join Janet Wong on the trip back home, revealing that even when family members speak different languages, there is still much they can share. This book was illustrated by Bo Jia, who studied painting at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and currently lives in Washington, D.C. Comments from the Author Why do we give the gifts we do? I used to give gifts I thought the other person would find useful, until I realized that I usually have no idea of what they really need! So now I give gifts that I myself would like to receive. The best gifts are often free—a home-made gift from the kitchen, or a poem! When I was four years old, my mother and I went to Korea and spent one month with her family in the small village where she grew up. I had not known my Korean grandparents and aunt before then; I was born in Los Angeles and had never even seen pictures of them. But I wanted to pick out the gifts we gave them, and managed to choose several rather useless gifts, I am told. This book is about the gifts we give and the gifts we receive every day, in our own personal journeys that define "home." Awards and Honors
"Recalling her childhood trip to rural Korea with her mother to visit her
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