About the Event:

Join Jimin Han and her daughter Jinjee Denner at Buffalo Street Books as they talk about family stories, how they made their way into The Apology, and how others can find ways to do the same with their life stories.

About the Author:

Jimin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island; Dayton, Ohio; and Jamestown, New York. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. She is
the author of A Small Revolution and has written for American Public Media’s Weekend America, Poets & Writers, and Catapult, and other media outlets. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Pace University, and community writing centers. She lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

About the Book:

In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the
afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come.

Jeonga Cha has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her
daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to
preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision
would return to haunt her—threatening to tear apart her bond with her beloved son, her relationship
with her infuriatingly insolent sisters, and the future of the family she has worked so hard to protect?

Part ghost story and part family epic, The Apology is an incisive tale of sisterhood and diaspora, reaching
back to the days of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, and told through the singular voice of a
defiant, funny, and unforgettable centenarian.