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As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret's grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why. Starry Field chronicles Chul Ha's untold story. Combining investigative journalism, oral history, and archival research, Margaret reveals the truth about the grandfather she never knew. What she found is that Lee Chul Ha was not a source of shame; he was a student revolutionary imprisoned in 1929 for protesting the Japanese government's colonization of Korea. He was a hero--and eventually honored as a Patriot of South Korea almost 60 years after his death. It is through the series of three interviews with her grandmother that Margaret finally finds a sense of recognition she's been missing. A story of healing old wounds and the reputation of an extraordinary young man, Starry Field bridges the tales of two women. Starry Field weaves together the stories of Margaret's family against the backdrop of Korea's tumultuous modern history, with a powerful question at its heart. Can we ever separate ourselves from our family's past--and if the answer is yes, should we?

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Margaret Juhae Lee is an Oakland-based writer and a former literary editor of the Nation magazine. She has been the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University, and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korean Foundation. She is also a Tin House scholar, and has been awarded residencies at the Mesa Refuge, the Anderson Center, and Mineral School. In 2020, she was named ""Person of the Year"" by the Sangcheol Cultural Welfare Foundation in Kongju, South Korea, for her work in honoring her grandfather, Patriot Lee Chul Ha. Her articles, reviews, and interviews have been published in the Nation, Newsday, Elle, ARTnews, the Advocate, the Progressive, and the Rumpus. Michelle H. Lee is a Korean American voice actor and narrator. She has provided the English dubbed voices for characters in animated shows such as Assassination Classroom, Date a Live, Shadows House, and Tokyo Ghoul. A lifelong love of reading led her to venture into audiobook narration in 2020, and she's been loving it ever since. Born and raised in Maryland, she enjoys spending time with her family and going out to eat good food. Michelle H. Lee is a Korean American voice actor and narrator. She has provided the English dubbed voices for characters in animated shows such as Assassination Classroom, Date a Live, Shadows House, and Tokyo Ghoul. A lifelong love of reading led her to venture into audiobook narration in 2020, and she's been loving it ever since. Born and raised in Maryland, she enjoys spending time with her family and going out to eat good food.

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