Author Talk: Elizabeth Rice

Rituals of separation : a South Korean memoir of identity and belonging
Elizabeth Rice
Thursday, July 6 at 4 pm
Elizabeth Rice spent most of her first sixteen years in Seoul, South Korea as the youngest child of socially progressive Presbyterian missionaries. After leaving Korea she received her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington. She worked in the NGO sector for many years, serving in a public health nonprofit for immigrants and refugees in the Twin Cities and working in grassroots community development organizations and nonprofits from Seattle to Mississippi to Zambia. She is currently living between Costa Rica and Vermont.
Come hear Elizabeth  read from her first book, Rituals of Separation,  a love song to a cross-cultural childhood and an exploration of issues of belonging, loss, and cultural identity. Elizabeth will discuss the impact of growing up in Korea at a pivotal juncture in that country’s history, when South Korea was still recovering from a horrific war that divided the nation into two, industrializing at a rapid pace, and seeing the burgeoning of a democracy movement that would eventually lead to the toppling of a line of dictators.