Somebody's Daughter: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807083895 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Choppy format, succumbs to cliche Tammy I really, really wanted to like this book, since I'm a Korean adoptee and enjoyed other Marie Lee books like Finding My Voice and Saying Goodbye. I got so distracted though by the format of the story, going back & forth between Sarah's and Kyung Sook's narratives. I couldn't get into either of their stories only one chapter at a time. There were too many flashes back in time in Kyung Sook's story line for me a believeable story arc to develop.I was disappointed that the writing fell victim to overdone st. "Unengaging and generic, both times thru" according to Eun Jung. I'm all about supporting KA authors, as a Korean American myself. But try as I might, I simply can not get engaged in this book. I even read it a second time hoping that I'd get something that I didn't get the first time. I am not an adoptee. Nor am I an adoptee's parent. That said, I do have several friends who are Korean adoptees. I would NEVER dare claim to know what it is like for them, and I would never dare write from their point of view because I openly admit I could not do justice to their experi. "Review in ADOPTIVE FAMILIES" according to A. Once I began reading Somebody's Daughter, I could not put it down. How could the author, who is not herself an adoptee, capture the feelings of one so well?Lee writes in the first person as Sarah Thorson, a Korean adoptee, and in the third person as Kyung-Sook, Sarah's birthmother. I immediately identified with Sarah. Kyung-Sook is more distant, more difficult to understand, though, as a reader, you sympathize with her reasons for abandoning her child. Sarah's adoptive family also appears occasionally, a
After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage, eventually embarking on a crusade to find her birth mother. A "heartwarming and heartbreaking"* story of a Korean American girl's search for her rootsSomebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. Paralleling Sarah's story is that of Kyung-sook, who was forced by difficult circumstances to let her baby be swept away from her immediately after birth, but who has always longed for her lost child.
Adopted by a white Minnesota family who tried to quash any curiosity Sarah Thorson might have about her homeland, the directionless 20-year-old drops out of college and enrolls in a Korean-language program in Seoul. When a woman comes forward, the two begin to form a bond, but a DNA test proves them unrelated. All rights reserved. Meanwhile, Lee spins out the parallel story line of Sarah's birth mother: Kyung-Sook had dreams of pursuing a career in Korean folk music, but she fell for an American hippie who abandoned her once she became pregnant. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. With the help of her new boyfriend, Korean-American Doug, who educates her about her homeland and