Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
Autore di Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption
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A heartbreaking memoir of an adoptee growing up in Sweden and searching for her Korean roots as an adult. This book got under my skin. The art didn’t quite agree with me, but I thought that it fit the story very well.
The racism the author experiences is horrifying and all too familiar. I cringe when “well-meaning” persons do not allow you to tell and understand your own story in your own way – “but imagine, what would your life had been like if… should you not be grateful?” I cannot imagine what it must be like to feel like a blank slate before being adopted, to feel rootless and adrift.
There is a dark side to international adoptions that doesn’t come into the limelight enough – the corruption, the forged documents, the trafficking of children, the authorities who refuse to answer questions. Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom’s and her husband’s tireless search for answers reads like a mystery novel at times. The web of secrets and lies seems endless, and the information they do find just raises more questions. I hope they will find closure in the future.… (altro)