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Novelist Nora Okja Keller was born in Seoul, Korea. Her father was a German computer engineer and her mother, a Korean "jack of all trades." Keller grew up in Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii. In 1995 she received the Pushcart Prize for a short story, "Mother Tongue," which later became a part of Comfort Woman, her first novel and winner of the 1998 American Book Award.

Her recently published second novel, Fox Girl, is set in Korea in the mid '60s and is the story of three young Koreans who are marginalized by their society and abused by American GIs.

It is a harrowing tale told unflinchingly and yet with lyricism.

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Nora Keller continues to tap into the reservoirs of historical relevance. In a statement that applies equally to Fox Girl, Keller relates, "While I was working on the novel [Comfort Woman], I'd type in 'comfort women' into a search engine and come up with Martha Stewart articles about how to make the home more comfortable.

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