The Way the Ball Bounces

About the Book

Korean American internist David Kim and his wife, Japanese American plastic surgeon Gloria Kim, practice in Beverly Hills, California. He was educated at Yale University and its medical school and she at Harvard University and its medical school. They both trained in their specialty at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Both physicians were pressured by their parents to achieve their successful and respected status. They decided to not subject their two teenage children, Nora and Mark, to the same ordeal. What happens to this Asian American family with its lifestyle diametrically diff erent from that related by the Tiger Mom is what this book is about.

About the Author

I spent my childhood in Wailuku, Maui in Hawaii. I am a retired physician, attorney and real estate broker in Los Angeles, California. My educational background: BS Magna Cum Laude, Marquette University; MD With Distinction, University of Michigan Medical School; Internship, The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC; Medical Residency, The Mayo Clinic; JD, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. I won the annual James Clavell Literary Award for my story returning Alone to Maui in 1997 for my story, Returning Alone to Maui, and authored two Novellas: MD-JD in 2011 and Sex in Different Packages in 2012. I won the annual James Clavell Literary Award for my story Returning Alone to Maui in 1997.