Your Asian Doll

Am I just your fetish?

Photo by Larm Rmah on Unsplash

When my father told my mother and me that we were relocating to the US due to his promotion, I was excited. I had just turned thirteen and had this notion that we would be in a brownstone in New York, Sex and the City style and I’d be wearing Jimmy Choos any minute.

Born and raised in Seoul, I wasn’t intimidated by cities and we had been to plenty of others from London to Singapore on…