Somebody's Daughter
β Scribed by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 2005;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A "heartwarming and heartbreaking"* story of a Korean American girl's search for her roots
Somebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. 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. 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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