thelibrarydweller 's review for:

Litany for the Long Moment by Mary-Kim Arnold

4.0

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This is a wonderful nonfiction book with photos. It is about how the author was adopted from Korea at a young age and brought to America. She was raised by a white family and struggles with a lack of memory about her birth parents and Korean culture. This book is an exploration of her questioning what she knows of her Korean past and culture through research that she has done, as well as her life in America and her relation to language, specifically the term "mother". The author also talks about other Korean American female artists and how their thoughts on Korea, art, and their experiences overlap with her own. This book is essentially a piece of art made up of related fragments that form a picture of one Korean American woman's life. I highly recommend if you want to know more about Korea and adoption from the point of the adoptee. Or if you want to hear the story of a female artist's life and her exploration of her Korean origins.