The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa

RARE BOOK; 1ST EDITION - OUT OF PRINT
Grade 10 Up–A coming-of-age story set in rural Korea a few generations ago.
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers - both neighbors and strangers - look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.