Becoming Korean: A Memoir by Amy Gilbert

Becoming Korean is the true story of one woman’s journey, and sometimes struggle, to embrace the nation and the heritage of the country that gave her up for adoption. After being adopted as a child and living in a white American family, she found her Korean family at the age of forty-nine, and developed relationships with them. This book describes how she is re-discovering the culture, language and family that were lost and forgotten. She shares her joys and losses of being adopted, living in America and Becoming Korean.