Somebody’s Daughter - A Book Review & Giveaway
I am incredibly embarrassed to say that I received this book over two months ago and didn’t get a chance to even open the cover until my unplugged time last week. Once I finally did sit down with it, I couldn’t put it down. And that’s saying something for a mom of a newbie and a barely two-bie.
Somebody’s Daughter, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, is about a young woman named Sarah who was born in Korea and adopted by a caucasian couple in the American midwest shortly thereafter. After a life of feeling like she never really fit, she dropped out of university and traveled to Korea to study the language and eventually began the search for her birth mother. Marie writes very eloquently and interweaves the story of Sarah and her birth mother Kyung-Sook in such a way that I felt that I stepped into each of their lives for the hours I was reading. How someone who wasn’t adopted herself can present both sides of the story in such a realistic way is beyond me. It takes incredible talent to write a book like Somebody’s Daughter and I’m so glad I found the time to read it. I’m tempted to give away how it ends, but you’ll just have to read it. It would be an amazing book club pick - it’s a book that almost anyone would love whether you’re looking for deep conversation or just an escape into the land of literature.
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