Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More.

Also published in the United Kingdom under the title Marilyn and Me.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-173).

February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still struggle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are teeming. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist for the American forces still stationed in the city, yearns for the life she used to live before her country was torn apart. Then Alice's boss makes an announcement—the American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job. What could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning with her own painful past as the two very different women build an unexpected kinship and form the surprising connections which can change, or even save, a life.