Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Somebody's Daughter (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807097229
• Artikelnr.: 40024487

Autorenporträt

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of three young adult novels, including Finding My Voice and Saying Goodbye, has received many honors for her writing, among them an O. Henry honorable mention, and both Best Book for Young Adults and Best Book for Reluctant Readers citations from the American Library Association. She is currently a visiting scholar at her alma mater, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.