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I'm used to being excluded and feeling unwelcome. I've been a hoodlum my whole life. They want to tell me I'm stealing her? F*ck it. Okay, I'm stealing her. --Mark D. Diehl, South Korea, 1994 Mark, a recent college graduate and part-time delinquent, showed up in South Korea with $20 and a dubious offer to teach English. Jennifer was the smart, independent second daughter of one of Korea's most influential families. They fell in love in a country where even sitting together brought angry stares, taunts, and threats. Their employer forbade the relationship, but they continued to meet in secret until Jennifer's family grew suspicious and had her followed. Their subsequent efforts to separate the couple were relentless, vindictive and increasingly violent, forcing Mark and Jennifer to abandon everything and flee together to Hong Kong. They both realized that the narrow escape did not mean the end of their ordeal, but they could not know how dire their situation was about to become.

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KIRKUS REVIEWS: ...Combining the drama and excitement of a novel with some sociological commentary, the author offers both a tender love story and an eye-opening depiction of Korean values, restrictions, and strengths in the early '90s. ... An engrossing, poignant, and often disturbing adventure; loaded with historical and cultural details about the Korean Peninsula. FOREWARD CLARION REVIEWS: ...The tension builds right from the start. Pointed, natural dialogue moves the story forward, revealing characters' backstories without lengthy narrative passages. Informative and entertaining, the book sets the stage for the conflict between the young outlier couple and Korean society through eye-opening, often disturbing facts about the country's culture, beliefs, and lifestyle, including that it's suffered nine hundred invasions in its history. It becomes clear why the nation is suspicious and fearful of its neighbors and why it takes comfort in holding tightly to its traditions. A prescient warning comes regarding submission to rigid hierarchies as a requirement for acceptance and survival. Stealing Cinderella is a thrilling, high-stakes memoir--emotionally intense, in which two memorable lovers fight against injustice and toward a satisfying conclusion.

KIRKUS REVIEWS: ...Combining the drama and excitement of a novel with some sociological commentary, the author offers both a tender love story and an eye-opening depiction of Korean values, restrictions, and strengths in the early '90s. ... An engrossing, poignant, and often disturbing adventure; loaded with historical and cultural details about the Korean Peninsula. FORWARD CLARION REVIEWS: ...The tension builds right from the start. Pointed, natural dialogue moves the story forward, revealing characters' backstories without lengthy narrative passages. Informative and entertaining, the book sets the stage for the conflict between the young outlier couple and Korean society through eye-opening, often disturbing facts about the country's culture, beliefs, and lifestyle, including that it's suffered nine hundred invasions in its history. It becomes clear why the nation is suspicious and fearful of its neighbors and why it takes comfort in holding tightly to its traditions. A prescient warning comes regarding submission to rigid hierarchies as a requirement for acceptance and survival. Stealing Cinderella is a thrilling, high-stakes memoir--emotionally intense, in which two memorable lovers fight against injustice and toward a satisfying conclusion.

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