Center for Reproductive Justice
Hello and welcome!
I'm a Korean American transracial adoptee, born in the American military district of Yongsan in Seoul, and raised 50 miles east of Fargo (like the movie) by Missouri Synod Lutherans. I went to college in Minneapolis and lived in the Twin Cities area for fifteen years. I have lived in Korea since 2004.
The Language of Blood: A Memoir was first released in Fall 2003. It came out in both an English paperback edition and a Korean edition in 2005. The Language of Blood was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a Minnesota Book Award winner. The Korean edition was a Fall 2005 selection in literature by the Korean Publication Ethics Commission.
Co-edited with Sun Yung Shin and Julia Chinyere Oparah, Outsiders Within: Writings on Transracial Adoption was published by South End Press in November 2006.
Fugitive Visions, a new memoir, is now happily in the editing stage and will be published by Graywolf Press.
What happens when you've found your natural mother and want to live near her and support her-- but wait! You were already declared an "orphan" at the time of your adoption by U.S. immigration and they'll only let you have one set of parents!! Check out the Family Immigration Page.
**For inquiries on returning to Korea to live, work, study, search, etc., please contact GOAL or InKAS.
Lots of adoptees have been asking me lately how to buy Outsiders Within outside the U.S. If your local bookstore won't order it for you, you can also order straight from the publisher. Please contact South End Press. If you live in Korea and would like a copy, you can get one from me, KoRoot, or order from What the Book in Itaewon.
Books may be ordered in Korea at What the Book? in Itaewon
and worldwide on amazon international