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Five More to Go: Alice Stephens’ Famous Adopted People [in The Booklist Reader]

Famous Adopted People by Alice Stephens “Everyone, it seems, is telling our story but us,” observes Lisa Pearl, the Korean-born, Bethesda, Maryland-raised transracial adoptee protagonist in Alice Stephens’ recent October debut. The author, who describes herself as being “among the first generation of transnational, interracial adoptees,”...

Further Reading: North Korea [in The Booklist Reader]

20 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Lists, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost, Translation

The three-generation Kim Dynasty has made North Korea one of the most reviled – and ridiculed – nations in the world. Memes depicting Kim Jong-un laughing about the fact that he’s “no longer the craziest leader” keep popping up on social feeds, even while reports...

How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]

08 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW After the brutal murder of his father and the wrenching separation from his mother and sister, Yongju must survive a new life of deprivation after his privileged upbringing as the only son of one of North Korea’s power elite. Danny, a misfit immigrant teen...

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Five More to Go: Alice Stephens’ Famous Adopted People [in The Booklist Reader]

Further Reading: North Korea [in The Booklist Reader]

How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]

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