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Title: The Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka ISBN: 0-87351-466-1 Publisher: Borealis Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Revolutionary exploration of adopted subjectivity!
Comment: This book is nothing short of revolutionary. A critical addition to the growing representations within adoption and Asian American discourses. Most books about adoption are by white adoptive parents, who of course have their own agenda and interests. Jane Jeong Trenka's questioning of the status quo--the master narrative about adoption, race, and kinship--is extremely important if we are to place adoption in the largest human context possible and get away from a simple-minded "Love Makes a Family" neoliberal capitalist under-theorized multiculturalism. And the writing is gorgeous and inventive. Her musical training shines through in the rhythm, pacing, and lyricism of every chapter. A must-read!
Rating: 5
Summary: To An Adult Adoptee, this book is like a bible.
Comment: I actually met Jane Jeong Trenka before reading her book. She's one of the nicest, most understanding people I've ever met and reading her book only makes her more human and therefore more lovable.
As a Korean Adult Adoptee trying to break new ground with support groups and helping adopted childrens' programs in the North East, I find this book to be a wonderful escape from the "sugar-coated" world I present adoption through to the kids I work with, because I can so closely relate to it.
It is for this reason that I recommend this book to any adult adoptee or any person who is a relative or close friend of any adult adoptee. It gives us a glimpse of what we feel: longing, sadness, loss, curiosity, anger, resentment, and many more feelings beyond those that words can describe.
This book is an important milestone in the journey of our development for adult adoptee support groups and should be regarded as such. There are no words to describe how much this book will mean to some of us.
Rating: 1
Summary: Still disappointed
Comment: As a parent who has adopted two Korean children, I was excited to purchase this book, but came away with an empty stomach. Trenka reveals herself as selfish and arrogant and I'm not surprised that she had relationship tensions with her American family and adopted sister. I questioned her sincerity when she let money and vacation days come between her when her birth mother passed away. Her real struggle appears being a Korean in a white community. She seems only to find peace within herself after her birth mother has died and she's marries a white man, returning to Korea to show him off to her half sisters. The author should have written this memoir after she reached a level of self-awareness as well as learned the meaning of being humble, a respected trait in Korean culture. Adoption does not give entitlement.
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Title: Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson, Amy Klatzkin ISBN: 0963847279 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson ISBN: 042518496X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees by Sook Wilkinson, Nancy Fox ISBN: 0818702869 Publisher: Sunrise Ventures Pub. Date: 18 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: At Home in This World, A China Adoption Story by Jean MacLeod ISBN: 0972624414 Publisher: Emk Pr Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran, Esther Tyldesley ISBN: 1400030803 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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