<![CDATA[The Language of Blood]]>

false <![CDATA[The Language of Blood]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171123937m/88047.jpg 88047 2 <div>“A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is Jeong Kyong-Ah. My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I come from a land of pear fields and streams, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. Halfway around the world, I am someone else. Jane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the small, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota—a place “where the sky touches the earth in uninterrupted horizon . . . where stoicism is stamped into the bones of each generation.” They were loved as American children without a past. With inventive and radiant prose that includes real and imagined letters, a fairy tale, a one-act play, crossword puzzles, and child-welfare manuals, Trenka recounts a childhood of insecurity, a battle with a stalker that escalates to a plot for her murder, and an extraordinary trip to Seoul to meet her birth mother and siblings. Lost between two cultures for the majority of her life, it is in Korea that she begins to understand her past and the power of the unspoken language of blood. </div> 84973 book 2003 The Language of Blood total:86|5:29|4:32|3:19|2:5|1:1| 86 341 134 17 4 0 false true Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:27:25 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:41:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 27 12:37:23 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 12:37:23 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 31 17:14:21 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 17:14:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:49:27 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:50:34 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 10:57:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:46:28 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 08 11:21:14 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:21:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 14:35:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 14:35:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 19:07:48 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 07:23:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Jul 07 15:57:26 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 16:04:17 -0700 2007 The Language of Blood is a mixed-genre memoir that set the bar high for all others in that sub-genre. My only bone to pick: the cover on the Borealis Books hardcover is much cooler than that of Graywolf's paperback. ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 08:15:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 08:20:26 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jul 09 09:58:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 10:01:17 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Mar 24 14:01:18 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 14:02:16 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 05:51:45 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:54:10 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 10 08:12:35 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 10 08:17:09 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 16:49:17 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:06:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 24 23:18:25 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:18:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 09:48:20 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 09:49:09 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Fri Dec 04 00:29:19 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 00:29:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Nov 25 01:37:41 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 01:37:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 16:46:20 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 16:46:24 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=88047