Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family Hayasaki Erika
Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of twin sisters--born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world--whose discovery of one another's existence upends…
Specifikacia Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family Hayasaki Erika
Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of twin sisters--born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world--whose discovery of one another's existence upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity.The twins were born in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 1998. Their birth mother couldn't afford to care for them, so one sister, Ha, was adopted by her biological aunt and her partner in rural Vietnam. Ha grew up walking to the local school, helping her moms take care of their chickens, and cooking outside over a firepit. They had sporadic electricity and frequent monsoons. Ha's twin, once called Loan, was adopted by a wealthy white family, who renamed her Isabella, in a predominantly white suburb of Chicago. She attended private Catholic schools, played soccer, and started preparing for college.When Isabella's mother Keely