Vanessa Hua April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021, 7:11 am
Chaney Kwak, author of the forthcoming “The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship.” Photo: Michael Baca
Chaney Kwak’s great-grandmother had a saying that his grandmother passed on to him: “Water’s the strongest element of all.”
“At least fire might leave ash. And I’ll take grandmother’s word for it: she nearly died at sea immigrating back from Japan to Korea, only to land just in time to see the destruction of the Korean War. She knew what she was talking about. Water, which gives us life, can be the most destructive force of all,” said Kwak, author of the forthcoming “The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship.”