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virgilius's review
4.0
Graphic: Racism and Child abuse
Moderate: Racial slurs and Miscarriage
lottiegasp's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Racism and Child abuse
ajluedke91's review against another edition
5.0
“As my thoughts reached out to them, all at once I could envision hundreds of gossamer-thin threads of history and love, curiosity and memory, built up slowly across the time and space between us - a web of connections too delicate to be seen or touched, too strong to be completely severed (p. 79)”.
“…withholding hard truths and my honest opinions would also sell short the love I have for them, and they for me. The fierce wish I still harbor for them to understand me for who I am, stand with me in love and full acceptance, persists because they chose me and they raised me: we are one another’s responsibility (p. 208)”.
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Racial slurs
leweylibrary's review
4.5
I can identity in some ways because of my being a test tube baby and my parents' separation when I was in early middle school. I got a lot of the same questions about wanting to know my "real" dad, but pushing my mind several steps further to consider not only having no biological relations around you AND being a visibly different race from your family...that's intense.
I feel like I still have a lot of questions having read her second book first, like what thoughts and emotions she was having about her biological family whom she did meet and talked to while her adopted parents were having their health issues and eventually dying. It was really lovely seeing her relationship with her sister take form, especially since my relationship with my own sister is a little like it, even if we aren't related by blood.
Graphic: Abandonment, Racial slurs, Racism, Pregnancy, and Medical content
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Child abuse
Minor: Miscarriage and Cancer
alylentz's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Child abuse
whatchareadingheather's review
5.0
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Body shaming
readingwithcoffee's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Racism, and Child abuse
emzireads's review
4.0
Moderate: Pregnancy and Racism
Minor: Child abuse and Miscarriage
kristin_bee's review
3.5
This is not my favorite kind of memoir. I prefer memoirs that read more like a story rather than vignettes with narration in between. This is the memoir of a Korean-American adoptee to an all-white family. Nicole decides to search for her birth family while she is pregnant with her first daughter. For me, the story picked up at this point and I loved reading about her relationship with her full biological sister, Cindy (she has a half-sister too). The stories and moments with Cindy and their father were my favorite and I would’ve happily read more. Overall, thoughtful and thought provoking.
Minor: Child abuse
ashleycmms's review
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Bullying, and Grief