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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: wanderer's curse
    sub title: a memoir
  name:
    name part: Choi, Jennifer Hope
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 292 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  abstract: "When 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. For 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? This 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?"--
  note: Jennifer Hope Choi.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-kn---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Choi, Jennifer Hope
  subject:
    topic: Koreans
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Korean Americans
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and daughters
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine coréenne
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Mères et filles
    genre: Biographies
  classification: E184.K6 C4754 2025
  classification: E184.K6 C46 2025
  classification: 305.8957/0092 B
  identifier: 9781324035510
  identifier: 132403551X
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GCmBT
    record creation date: 250425
    record change date: 20250804165002.2
    record identifier: in00005655710
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng