There came a moment in the remote mountain wilderness of Korea when Ann Y.K. Choi feared that she was well and truly lost. The Toronto novelist was there with her 16 year-old daughter because of the book she was writing — a book in which two of its characters are in flight for their lives in that very place.

“I wanted to know what it felt like to be running away in the mountains a hundred years ago,” Choi says now. “We tried our best to simulate that experience”

And like the novel’s fictional characters, they were ill prepared.

“No book is worth this!” her daughter protested after hours of dealing with insects, scorching heat and rough terrain. However, it was worth it for Choi who needed her new novel — All Things Under The Moon — to be as accurate as possible.

“This is how I was educ

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