Buck, Pearl S

Describes the life of a young Korean boy whose American father had left for home, whose mother had deserted him, but who eventually finds other boys like himself and forms a family of his own. He later gets an American father and mother.

Born of missionary parents and brought up in China the author devotes the major part of this autobiography to a social and political description of China, from the Boxer Rebellion to 1953. The last part of the book tells of her return to the United States, her interest in helping the unwanted children of the world, her work for international understanding. Through it all there are her books and her own family life.

His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.