Up next for our adoption book group is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family by journalist and UC Irvine professor Erika Hayasaki.
Hayasaki traces the lives of identical twin girls born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world–Ha in-country with her biological aunt and aunt’s partner and Isabella in Chicago with her adoptive parents and non-biological sister, adopted from the same orphanage. The twins reunite as preteens, and Hayasaki spent hundreds of hours interviewing them and their birth and adoptive families. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “An engaging portrait of intersected lives.” One chapter in and I’m intrigued.
Looking forward to the February discussion with my Bay Area Guatmamas.