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Somewhere sisters a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family

"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--

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Main Author: Hayasaki, Erika (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Vietnamese American girls > Illinois > Barrington > Biography.
Twin sisters > Illinois > Barrington > Biography.
Twin sisters > Vietnam > Biography.
Solimene, Isabella Louise, > 1998- > Childhood and youth.
Nguyễn, Thị Hồng Hà, > 1998- > Childhood and youth.
Solimene, Olivia Claire, > 1999- > Childhood and youth.
Adopted children > United States > Biography.
Adopted children > Vietnam > Biography.
Intercountry adoption > Vietnam.
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Biographies.
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Summary:"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
Physical Description:303 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300).
ISBN:9781616209124
1616209127
Author Notes:Erika Hayasaki is a journalist based in Southern California, the author of The Death Class , and a professor in the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine. A former Los Angeles Times national correspondent, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine , the Atlantic , Wired , and other publications. She has been a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and an Alicia Patterson Fellow, and she has received awards and recognition from the Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the Society for Features Journalism, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 . She is the mother of a daughter and twin boys.




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