"Hyun Sook and I have officially canceled our 4 month trip to the US. We have planned this trip for years, I was about to announce events across the country, and Hyun Sook resigned from the job she loved and held for a decade so she'd be available. But the US is no longer a safe place to travel. With what's happened THIS WEEK, all it'd take is for a border guard to find out Hyun Sook was attending a book conference to accuse her of planning illegal work and have ICE drag her handcuffed to a concrete cell. Finding out she writes BANNED books might put them in a mood to make things worse. WHO KNOWS how much worse things will get by the summer when we planned to leave, or while we were there. She wrote her book about living under a dictator to warn us that it was possible. Time has proven that it is, and I don't plan to make her relive it. SOOOO to make up for all these lost events I'll be loading up on virtual visits and podcast appearances! If you want me to talk to your class, your library, your book club, your podcast, or such… give me a holler. I don't charge nothin', I just like talking about books."
