Monday, 27 October 2014

What I've just finished reading: Girl in Reverse, by Barbara Stuber

GoodReads summary: When Lily was three, her mother put her up for adoption, then disappeared without a trace. Lily grew up in her new family and tried to forget her past. But with the Korean War raging and fear of “commies” everywhere, Lily’s Asian heritage makes her a target. She is sick of the racism she faces, a fact her adoptive parents won’t take seriously. For Lily, war is everywhere—the dinner table, the halls at school, and especially within her own skin.

Then her brainy little brother, Ralph, finds a box hidden in the attic. In it are a baffling jumble of broken antiques—clues to her past left by her “Gone Mom.”  Will Lily summon the courage to confront her own remarkable creation story? The real story, and one she can know only by coming face-to-face with the truth long buried within the people she thought she knew best.

Great tie-in with the prejudice experienced by Asian people in America during the Korean War, along with a tale about finding out who you really are.

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