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Songs of My Families: A Thirty-Seven Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back
by
Kelly Fern,
Brad Fern
In 1971, Lee Myonghi, aged five, was taken from her family and placed in a Korean orphanage. Six months later, she was flown to the United States, where she and two other Korean girls were adopted by a Minnesota couple. They renamed her Kelly Jean. Eleven years later, Kelly found herself at the doorstep of a Minnesota agency, although this time as a teen mother giving her...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
November 1st 2011
by Lantern Books
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LOVED the story!! Very awesome. She seems like a remarkable woman and her families are remarkable as well. I just wish that she would have had someone else help her write it. I would have liked more details about the more important happenings in her life, and less details about the things that don't really matter (so many details about a spa that they went to .....so many missing details about her growing up years). This is a quick read.
all tears...feel guilty as a Korean who have lived a normal and very different course of life.
Nice story - amateur author.
As a Bookclub member stated, "This is a three tissue box book". Sad AND Happy tears of love, healing and reconnecting with her Korean family separated from as a five year old. Highly recommended for all families; adoptive and biological alike.
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Kelly Fern was born in Geumsan, South Korea, and came to the United States when she was five years old. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in European Studies. She is a behavioral detection officer for the Department of Homeland Security and a French language interpreter. Kelly lives with her husband and their two children in Minneapolis.
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