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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very entertaining story about Sarah Thorson, a woman who was born in Korea but was adopted by a Minnesota family. With her identity problems, she decides to visit Korea to study Korean and try to find out something about her birth mother. When she finds out that her mother did not die in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30438496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.<br/>It takes a minute to get into it because there are two stories going on, and not being Korean, it took me a minute to figure out the way they referred to each other when it was translated to English.The book is fictional, but as someone waiting to adopt from a foreign country...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36268329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a tough read for me, not because the book isn't good -- it's terrific -- but because the subject matter is close to my heart.  As the mom of two beautiful Korean-born children, the story of Sarah's search for meaning and purpose in her life tears at my heart.  From the start, it is obv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73647443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Somebody's Daughter when it first came out. I'm going to have to reread it, but the memory that remains is of a grand adventure in self-discovery.  Great writing. One of the books in my *permanent* collection.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because Cliff suggested it...and I wasn't disappointed. This showed wonderful insight into Korean culture, and ended on an unexpected note. A lovely story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It didn't capture my attention and found myself able to put the book down quickly and forget about it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[adoption, korea, america, family<br/><br/>old<br/>young<br/>perspectives]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this was ok.  didn't really speak to me on a personal level as i'm neither korean nor adopted but i liked the insight into korean life as i've never been but always wanted to go.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh.  The plot was pretty uninspired and many of the characters were wooden.  I did appreciate the look I got into Korean culture, which I why I picked up the book in the first place.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked the parallel stories and the sense of loss that haunts both the birth mother's and her daughter's lives. The details of life in modern Korea were fascinating. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved the angst, the sardonic tone, and the (mother-child) love story. i loved that sarah never learns to say &quot;i love you.&quot; <br/>i don't know why but i really dislike the cover. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Somebody_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 the University of Minnesota, she decides to study in Korea for a summer, more by happenstance than actual design, but as the summer progresses she becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage and eventually embarks on a crusade to find her birthmother. 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. The two stories are told side by side: Kyung-sook_s is the remembrance of her childhood involvement with an American who eventually abandons her when she refuses to have an abortion, while Sarah_s is the contemporary story of her deepening involvement with the culture and language of Korea, with Doug, her Korean American classmate, and with her search. These two narratives converge in one poignant moment, when the two women literally pass each other like ships in the night.]]>
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