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- Title
Satsuma - 3rd Place.
- Authors
Choi, Soo Hyun
- Abstract
My grandfather cannot talk about his childhood without crying but sometimes he tries when he does, I hold my breath as though my exhale might remind him to stop my grandmother sits beside us and peels another satsuma I have never heard her talk about the Korean war her calloused hands with sensible fingernails break open the orange skin she hears my grandfather's voice catch, and her voice tastes of rind I enough. i I won't taste these bitters with reverence or regret, she says spits out the seeds, one by one she never calls it trauma, doesn't call it anything at all instead, she hands me a satsuma my grandfather turns on the nine o'clock news Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
- Subjects
ORANGE peel; KOREAN War, 1950-1953
- Publication
Journal of Medical Humanities, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 4, p809
- ISSN
1041-3545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10912-021-09719-w