Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Summary

Year of Impossible Goodbyes This book is based on a real life event in history, on the year of 1945 in Kirimni, Pyongyang Korea. This book is about a Korean family, whose country was under Japanese rule, force to live the Japanese live style. To make sure that the Korean people, or what the Japanese called them peasants, they would sent Japanese police to inspect the peasants’ homes. A little girl named Sookan and her family never followed the Japanese ways. Sookan’s Grandfather was Buddhist and her mother was a Christian. Sookan and her family never got caught disobeying the rules, because they know when the police are coming to inspect their house, so they hide everything that was Chinese or Korean.

One day the Japanese order Sookan’s