To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of Korea Book

Jid Lee's memoir of Korea is a fascinating blend of her family's personal and of South Korea's traditions, histories and politics. The author not only recounts her personal experiences as a child and young woman in South Korea, but also explores in depth South Korea's recent history, the concept of class in this society, the importance of education to the South Korean people and why, despite a marked emphasis on education for both men and women, the feminist movement in Korea has progressed so very slowly.
The impact foreign policy, particularly American foreign policy, has had and continues to have on the lives of South Korean people is especially interesting to me a reader, as are some of the parallels that might be drawn between the South Korean and American civil rights and feminist movements-how each impacted, but did not always help, the other in both countries.
This memoir is fascinating, educational and inspirational. Anyone remotely interested in Korean history, the inner workings of another society, feminism or simply in a wonderful true story of personal triumph will find something worth learning, pondering and/or celebrating in Jid Lee's exceptionally well written To Kill A Tiger.