Review of Memory and Honor: Cultural and Generational Ministry with Korean American Communities

Simon C. Kim has written an ambitious book suitable for students and scholars alike addressing the often invisible struggles of Korean and Korean American Catholics in the United States. Hoping "to raise the awareness of a Korean American social consciousness, especially in its Catholic character" (9), Kim raises questions that all American Catholics (and the scholars who study them) would be wise to consider – questions about memory, suffering, and the ambiguity embedded in the stories that bolster our sense of immigrant-descended identity.