A review by yousaidokay
Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

3.0

I was incredibly surprised to find out that this book was originally published in 1992, as the book still seems so relevant to 2020. It's sad to know that also 30 years later, there is still people dealing with the same type of racist bullies that Ellen faced in this book. Much of what Ellen goes through in this book reflects what teenagers are still going through now.

Ellen is a seventeen year old girl who lives in Minnesota. She is apart of the only Korean-American family in the town where she lives in, making her an outsider and a target for bullies and micro-aggressions. At the beginning of her senior year, she starting liking a popular white boy named Tomper. She's surprised that he likes her back.