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Book SynopsisWinner of the Nautilus Award for Historical Fiction
Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendshipa must read! Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Your husband is a landowner, they told her.
Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees.
You will be able to go to school.
Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn''t long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the escalation of the Korean independence movements, unified in goal, but divergent in action, whi
