The Korean Word for Butterfly

"Americans. They think everybody is snowflake. Only one snowflake. Only one you. But in Korea we think like snowball. Everybody snowball." Yun-ji packed an imaginary snowball in her hands, then lifted it, palms up, as if offering Billie a present. "You see? Snowball." Both of them looked at Yun-ji's hands holding nothing. Set against the backdrop of the 2002 World Cup and rising anti-American sentiment due to a deadly accident involving two young Korean girls and a U.S. tank, this novel is told from three alternating points-of-view: Billie, the American looking for adventure with her boyfriend who soon finds herself questioning her decision to travel so far from the comforts of her old life; Moon, the ex K-pop band manager struggling to maintain his sobriety in hopes of getting his family back; And Yun-ji, a secretary whose new feelings of resentment toward Americans may lead her to do something she never would have imagined possible. 'The Korean Word For Butterfly' is a story about the choices we make and why we make them. It is a story, ultimately, about the power of love and redemption.