Author unveils new book
Assanatou Sow
Issue date: 11/16/09 Section: News
"So I made the decision that I would try to do it, but I first approached the women that I knew to ask them if they would be willing or interested in this.
I didn't want to try the project and find nobody willing to submit the story," she said.
Luckily after she had contacted the women she had met at the conference, each of them were willing to submit their own experiences.
"So I made the decision that I would try to do it, but I first approached the women that I knew to ask them if they would be willing or interested in this.
"I didn't want to try the project and find nobody willing to submit the story," she said.
Luckily each of the women she contacted were willing to submit their own experiences. A mother of three children who now have their own families, Hurh's first concern about the project, she said, was to provide the first-person social history.
Her second concern was to create the book for her grandchildren, so they can understand their history.
"As I was contacting the other women, they themselves gave me another concern, which is they thought when they were writing this that they might be helping other couples to work on considering international or ethnic or interracial marriage. And through their writing, perhaps this would help them have a successful marriage or decide whether to get married or not," Hurh said.
In order to gather more stories, Hurh sent emails to the Korean faculties at Western, and contacted her Korean relatives and her extended family in case they knew anyone with a similar experience. She contacted about eighteen people and ended up with twelve willing to supply their accounts. Some finished their stories earlier than others, so she continued helping the women with phone interviews.
"The editing and proofreading process were the most difficult part in writing this book, because getting the book into the formal form and me having to do my own copy was very hard," Hurh said. "Now that I have the book project done, I feel happy about it and I enjoyed working with people."
I didn't want to try the project and find nobody willing to submit the story," she said.
Luckily after she had contacted the women she had met at the conference, each of them were willing to submit their own experiences.
"So I made the decision that I would try to do it, but I first approached the women that I knew to ask them if they would be willing or interested in this.
"I didn't want to try the project and find nobody willing to submit the story," she said.
Luckily each of the women she contacted were willing to submit their own experiences. A mother of three children who now have their own families, Hurh's first concern about the project, she said, was to provide the first-person social history.
Her second concern was to create the book for her grandchildren, so they can understand their history.
"As I was contacting the other women, they themselves gave me another concern, which is they thought when they were writing this that they might be helping other couples to work on considering international or ethnic or interracial marriage. And through their writing, perhaps this would help them have a successful marriage or decide whether to get married or not," Hurh said.
In order to gather more stories, Hurh sent emails to the Korean faculties at Western, and contacted her Korean relatives and her extended family in case they knew anyone with a similar experience. She contacted about eighteen people and ended up with twelve willing to supply their accounts. Some finished their stories earlier than others, so she continued helping the women with phone interviews.
"The editing and proofreading process were the most difficult part in writing this book, because getting the book into the formal form and me having to do my own copy was very hard," Hurh said. "Now that I have the book project done, I feel happy about it and I enjoyed working with people."
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