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Erika Hayasaki spent nine years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times before becoming an assistant professor in the Literary Journalism program at the University of is a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Best Writing Award, a Society for Features Journalism Award, an American Assn. of Sunday and toon meer Feature Editors Award, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Breaking News Award. Visit her at thedeathclass.com. toon minder

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If you want a 'feel good' read, this is your book.
Interesting stories.
 
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alanac50 | 4 andere besprekingen | Feb 27, 2024 |
This is very woke and at times preachy. It seems the author wants a soapbox to spout her opinions instead of letting you draw your own conclusions from the information provided. I enjoyed learning about the twins and life in Vietnam. The author's portrayal of Keely, the mother is sometimes seen as pushy and making decisions for her children that the author thinks she should not, when she is just being a mother and doing what she thinks is best for her children.
 
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dara85 | 4 andere besprekingen | Dec 9, 2023 |
Erika Hayasaki engages an adoption constellation: two twins who shared a womb and were adopted into very different circumstances (rich American strangers and poor Vietnamese family), one of whom shares her adoptive family with a genetically unrelated girl from her same region and her same age.

The stories and identity formation quests of these three girls are fascinating and handled with care by the author -- so much care that the book seems to sometimes pull punches, despite having a clear message against transnational and transracial adoption -- and since I find these stories endlessly fascinating I quite enjoyed it. I think, however, that the story came through just as well in the short-form journalism on this story that I read before I picked up the book.… (meer)
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pammab | 4 andere besprekingen | Mar 24, 2023 |
twins born in 1998 Vietnam separated; one is adopted by a white family (living in a wealthy IL mostly-white neighborhood, along with another adopted girl from Vietnam, who is incidentally queer) and the other raised by her lesbian aunt in rural Vietnam. Author is mixed race (Japanese-American) and delves into a history of other ethical, social, and scientific issues surrounding twin studies, international and interracial adoptions, adoptee mental health and citizenship.

The narrative (pieced together from five years of interviews with the three adopted women and their various family members in US and Vietnam) gets a bit draggy but it's all good perspective that provides understanding and support for international adoptees who might otherwise not feel seen.… (meer)
 
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5
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½ 3.4
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10
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11
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