A Canadian ex-pat and a Korean former "comfort woman," each scarred by their pasts, seek redemption. Two separate lives become connected in South Korea: traumatized former Korean "comfort woman" Eun-young, who struggles with her past of rape and violence; and Michael, a troubled young Canadian arriving in Korea to teach ESL, whose principles and humanity are tested by Seoul s seedy expatriate underbelly. A world away and two generations apart, their lives collide through the fiery Jin, who challenges stereotypes of her race and gender as well as Michael s morality. Through meticulously crafted and heart-wrenching prose, ?"Sad Peninsula "takes the reader across oceans and decades, ?outlining the boundaries between seduction and coercion, between love and destruction, between a past that can t be undone and a future that seems just out of reach. "