The Starlet and the Spy: A Novel Ages 13 and up Elena wins a national poetry

Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana

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The Starlet and the Spy: A Novel Ages 13 and up Elena wins a national poetryA dazzling work of historical fiction about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four day USO tour. February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are