
As she grew up, moving the the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band- and meeting the man who would become her husband, her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim…
