Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Somebody's Daughter: A Novel
Paperback
(Beacon Press April 1, 2006)
, 1st edition
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. 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.
- ISBN
- 9780807083 / 9780807083895
- Pages
- 280
- Weight
- 14.1 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.4 x 0.6
in.