Bibliograph

Somewhere sisters, a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family, Erika Hayasaki

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Somewhere sisters, a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family, Erika Hayasaki

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Somewhere sisters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1290014585

Responsibility statement

Erika Hayasaki

Sub title

a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family

Summary

"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Three triangles -- 1998 -- Hà -- Loan and Nhủ -- The baby lifts -- Liên -- Rô and Tuyêt -- Cuckoo birds -- Isabella -- Cloth monkeys -- Olivia -- Wonderful beginnings -- Keely -- Baby brokers and viral adoptions -- "Is the baby okay?" -- A twin walks alone -- Blindly searching -- Fairy tales -- The letters -- Storms -- The fog -- "I got her" -- Strangers in the village -- "They love her" -- They are coming -- Motion sickness -- The cold -- The night -- "Harder than this" -- Always Loan -- "Where I am from" == "Be with us" -- Goodbye -- "I will come back" -- America -- "We're still here" -- Switched -- Powerful marks -- Similar scars -- Unspoken -- Grandma -- Where it feels safe -- Climb out -- Epilogue

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