Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi is a good novel to read. I thought it was a very moving book that helps us understand one perspective of the experiences that occurred during the end of WWII. I thought it was very good to read this book as a paired text with Far From the Bamboo Grove. Reading both books together helped us see that there are always different perspectives of things. On the one side we had Japanese hiding from Koreans and thinking they were bad, but somewhat good at the same time, while in the other was about a Korean family and how much they disliked the Japanese. These two books help us see that not everyone that is a certain ethnicity is like people who we see in the news, for example, of that same ethnicity. I think it would be great to do these in a paired text, or books like it in a classroom. I think these two books are very effective to showing different points of view of a serious topic like war. I think these books could be related to current events and would be a great learning experience for students when talking about such serious and sensitive topics.
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