Yoshiko's flags

"Heeja, a displaced North Korean immigrant in the U.S., makes up her mind at the age of eighty to obtain U.S. citizenship after a squabble with her fellow Korean immigrants over a current North Korean issue. On the way to the U.S. immigration office for the final interview, Heeja reveals the irreconcilable nature of her multiple identities to her violist daughter Euna. When, out of the blue, the immigration officer calls Heeja by the name of Yoshiko, a name she carried more than seventy years ago under Japanese imperial rule, Heeja realizes that she craved U.S. citizenship to become who she really is: a pro-Japanese collaborator, North Korean activist, and South Korean patriot at the same time. However, she had one more fundamental reason why she had to become American."--