someone thinks and writes.
What if one question could quietly change the way you see your life?
A reflective memoir about family, memory, identity, and the questions that gradually shape who we become. Told through short scenes and simple questions, it follows one person's attempt to understand his parents, his younger self, and, ultimately, himself — inviting readers to ask their own.
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What does it mean to belong to two countries when neither citizenship nor ancestry provides a final answer?
Born in Yanbian, China, into a Korean-speaking family, Yongjun Zhu was educated in Korean, studied in Korea and America, and later returned to Korea as a professor. Moving through childhood, language, migration, family ancestry, and the keeping of his name, this is one person's long inquiry into identity — what we inherit, what others call us, and what we choose to carry.
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