![]() ![]() ![]() It was also very hard for us to find motels that would allow a white man with a Korean wife and four mixed-race children to stay. “It made my father furious that we would all have to sit in the station wagon to eat. ![]() “We weren’t allowed to enter diners in the South because we were taken for Native American,” said Fenkl, who’s a professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In the 1970s, his family took a cross-country road trip from Washington State to New Jersey to catch a flight to Germany. Born in South Korea and raised there, as well as Germany and the United States, the author said that being a biracial child made him stick out wherever he was. Heinz Insu Fenkl’s autobiographical novel “Skull Water” (Spiegel & Grau, $28) was 25 years in the making. ![]()
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