A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots
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Born in Seoul and given the name Kim Ji-yun, she was adopted as a child and raised as Catherine Jeanne Robinson in a family in Salt Lake City, Utah. The change was so abrupt that she grew up with two identities, one Korean and one American, and little sense of how the two fit together.
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Two decades later, the author went back to Korea to look for her birth mother. Instead of the homecoming she had imagined, she found herself an outsider in the country where she was born. The journey brought together familiar and unfamiliar things, comfort and sorrow, and left her unsettled and deeply moved. Her memoir follows that search as a personal quest that opens onto larger questions about belonging and where a person comes from.
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