Doing What Had To Be Done

The first biography of an American-born Korean woman, Doing What Had to Be Done is, on the surface, the life story of Dora Yum Kim. But telling more than one woman's story, author Soo-Young Chin offers more than an unusual glimpse at the shaping of a remarkable community activist. In addition—as she questions her subject, introduces each chapter, and reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean American who immigrated to this country as an adult—she carves around D...