Appearing March 15 in the Oakland hills, her book leads readers through her family’s history during Korea’s colonial period.
Montclair-based writer Margaret Juhae Lee will appear in-person March 15 for a conversation about"Starry Fields" at Oakland hills store A Great Good Place for Books in Montclair Village.Margaret Juhae Lee leads readers on an experiential journey that she herself traveled in her new book, “Starry Field,” tracing her family’s Korean history in a quest to unlock long-kept secrets and discover her Asian American identity in the buried truths.
She has a master of arts degree in journalism from New York University’s Cultural Reporting & Criticism Program and a master of arts in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. Lee has lived since 2008 in Oakland’s Montclair district with her husband, Steve Olson, with whom she has two children, Owen, 17, and Kiki, 15.
Nearly 60 years after his death in 1936 at age 27, Lee says she discovered that her grandfather was instead actually a patriot and brave revolutionary who resisted the Japanese government’s colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 became ill. Restarting when her kids began preschool, she enrolled in generative workshops during which free-writing sessions caused her to entirely revise the book.
Lee says her greatest challenge was structuring the memoir, having tried writing chronologically but finding that going from beginning to end left holes and that the number of characters was confusing. She says after he learned that his father was a patriot, not a criminal, her father went from “stoic and very quiet” to “gregarious and so talkative he wouldn’t stop.” She unearthed memories, some revelatory and welcome, many painful. She says the lengthy process let her discover the reasons for writing and sharing her story publicly.
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