The Korean

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Africa Yoon n��e Engo was about to turn 30. She was a celebrated activist working in Manhattan and around the world when she found she had gained 120 pounds and was obese. She realized she needed a life beyond her work and dreamed about having a husband and children. For her dream to come to fruition she must work on herself to achieve her goal.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The activist starts on the road toward the greatest cause of her career-to save herself-and decides she will do a spiritual and physical makeover to find self-love in hopes it may lead to true love. One afternoon at the Asian grocery store Hmart a Korean grandmother calls her fat! After the initial embarrassment of the public moment the two begin an unusual friendship that leads her to eating kimchi-and that moment changes everything.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This memoir is full of culture food inspiration and travel in this ugly-duckling-turned-swan transformation story not unlike the self-discovery and romance vein of Sex and the City.</span></p>