| Somebody's Daughter Contributor(s): Lee, Marie Myung-Ok (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807083895 ISBN-13: 9780807083895 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $20.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: Adopted by a Midwest couple, 19-year-old Sarah Thorson studies one summer in Korea and eventually embarks on a crusade to find her birth mother. Paralleling Sarah's story, Kyung-sook, a Korean woman, reflects on the child she was forced to give away. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.45" W x 7.91" (0.67 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Ethnic Orientation - Korean - Cultural Region - Asian - Topical - Adoption |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 102562 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |