A good, but occasionally tough read (for me), about Korea, international adoption, race, and adoptees who return to their home country. This part struck me the most: For many adoptees, those cultural divides — coupled with the fact that they can’t speak the language, a frustrating and often heart-wrenching obstacle in their own birth country — solidifies the feeling that they hover in between: not fully American, not fully Korean. Instead, they live in a third space: Asian, Western, white, adopted, other. It’s a complicated place but not always a bad one. “I am, maybe, in a way, proud of my in-betweenness,” Lovell recently wrote me in an email.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:02:57 +0000
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