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Title: Voices from Another Place: A Collection of Works from a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries by Susan Soon-Keum Cox ISBN: 0-9638472-4-4 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Voices from Another Place
Comment: As the older sibling of a Korean adoptee, I still remember the delight of welcoming my sister into our home 47 years ago. That was before the adoption of anyone in this book! Yet there were things I did not know, especially about the Korean culture. Not everything in the book applied to my sister, whose biological father was American. Each story is unqiue. Yet I have grieved with her over the losses and the special challenges that this book validates. It helps me know how to talk with her more. It helps me see her as a super survivor and to better understand the difficulties my parents had in understanding her needs. How I appreciate all who helped to tell the collective story!
Rating: 2
Summary: More, please
Comment: Korean (and international) adoptees have so few venues for telling their stories that I hate to knock this one down. However, the stories fall into a dreary predictable sameness. Instead of highlighting how each adoptee is unique and how our stories can't be boiled down to a simple myth or stereotype, these stories don't have enough energy and "spark" to engage the reader. A notable exception, though, is the "Calling Card after Adrian Piper" which is a bilingual explanation why Korean adoptees who visit Korea can't speak Korean. I'd like to have some of those made for when I'm in Korea.
Rating: 1
Summary: Good idea but lifeless execution
Comment: Yes, it's wonderful to have a collection of essays written by Korean adoptees. It's important, meaningful, and very much needed in a world (both Korea and America) which tends to ignore the uncomfortable and blame victims (in this case, adoptees) for their own misfortunes. Putting together our experiences into an anthology is a collective, empowering act.
So why was I so bored? I'm a fellow ADOPTEE, and I could barely get through this book. It's mainly because many of the adoptees in this collection are just plain bad writers, but it also has to do with the layout of the book--no overall theme, no linking together of stories, no effort to present these stories in a creative or innovative way.
Is it necessary to be creative? No. But since it's hard enough for our voices (as adoptees) to be heard in the first place, publishing dull, lifeless works like this anthology will do little to help raise awareness. This book is only really useful if assigned as an empathy assignment, but the creeping dullness would most likely counteract any positive effect it might have.
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Title: I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children by Sara Dorow, unknown ISBN: 0963847236 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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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: The Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka ISBN: 0873514661 Publisher: Borealis Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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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: When You Were Born in Korea by Brian E. Boyd ISBN: 0963847201 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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