Fox Girl

Nora Okja Keller First published 2002

About this book

"Set in the aftermath of the Korean War, Fox Girl is the story of its forgotten victims, the abandoned children of American GIs who live in a world where life is about survival. The "fox girl" is Hyun Jin, who is disowned by her parents and whose life revolves around her best friend, Sookie, a teenage prostitute kept by an American soldier, and Lobetto, a lost boy who makes a living running errands and pimping for neighborhood girls."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

  • children of military personnel
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • korea, fiction
  • soldiers