A novel by Nora Okja Keller, published in 1998. The story of the Korean Akiko (not her real name), who is sold as a "comfort woman" to the occupying Japanese army by her older sister. She escapes the camp and finds shelter at a Christian mission, where a clergyman marries her and takes her with him to the USA. Intertwined with hers is the story of her daughter Beccah, growing up in Hawaii with her sad, troubled mother and eventually learning her story.