{"id":46410,"date":"2020-01-31T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46410"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:20:26","slug":"palimpsest-documents-from-a-korean-adoption-by-lisa-wool-rim-sjoblom-translated-by-hanna-stromberg-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/palimpsest-documents-from-a-korean-adoption-by-lisa-wool-rim-sjoblom-translated-by-hanna-stromberg-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sj\u00f6blom, translated by Hanna Str\u00f6mberg [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46281\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Palimpsest-Lisa-Wool-Rim-Sjoblom-BookDragon-553x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Palimpsest-Lisa-Wool-Rim-Sjoblom-BookDragon-553x800.jpg 553w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Palimpsest-Lisa-Wool-Rim-Sjoblom-BookDragon.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/woolrim.wordpress.com\/?fbclid=IwAR0Wc0rYUbi7O3zCGeawRLT75qt9yewXhmpaK0aB8LnGv1IIcQV6U74tgeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lisa Wool-Rim Sj\u00f6blom<\/a> opens with definitions of two seemingly unrelated, yet brilliantly paired, words: <em>palimpsest<\/em>, \u201ca very old text or document in which writing has been removed and covered or replaced by new writing,\u201d and\u00a0<em>adoption<\/em>, \u201cthe act of legally taking a child to be taken care of as your own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 1979, 2-year-old Chung Wool Rim became Lisa Sj\u00f6blom, part of a 9,000-plus statistic of Korean children sent to Sweden as adoptees in the 1970s to \u201980s. Her birth identity and birth culture are \u201ccompletely erased,\u201d making her \u201can empty vessel for other people to fill with their own story.\u201d Inevitably, \u201cour first families disappear completely from our own stories. And so do we.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her mid-20s, Sj\u00f6blom began the reclamation of her origin story, embarking on a decades-long grueling odyssey, which she meticulously documents in her graphic novel debut, originally published in Sweden in 2016, translated here by Sj\u00f6blom herself; her partner, Richey Wyver; and polyglot translator Hanna Str\u00f6mberg. Raw, can\u2019t-turn-away, angry Sj\u00f6blom confronts the \u201cgaping holes &#8230; filled with lies\u201d to vitally, finally tell her own authentic story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Palimpsest-Documents-from-a-Korean-Adoption-Lisa-WoolRim-Sjblom\/pid=9728501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016 (Sweden), 2020 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Wool-Rim Sj\u00f6blom opens with definitions of two seemingly unrelated, yet brilliantly paired, words: palimpsest, \u201ca very old text or document in which writing has been removed and covered or replaced by new writing,\u201d and\u00a0adoption, \u201cthe act of legally taking a child to be taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,73,37,107,6535,66,31],"tags":[82,83,84,6608,6668,22,59,10,11,8898,51,25,8897,13,129,8899,39,28],"class_list":["post-46410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-european","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-korean","category-memoir","category-repost","category-translation","category-young-adult-readers","tag-adoption","tag-assimilation","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-hanna-stromberg","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-lisa-wool-rim-sjoblom","tag-love","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-palimpsest","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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