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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.
Subjects:
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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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Three triangles
  • 1998
  • Hà
  • Loan and Nhủ
  • The baby lifts
  • Liên
  • Rô and Tuyêt
  • Cuckoo birds
  • Isabella
  • Cloth monkeys
  • Olivia
  • Wonderful beginnings
  • Keely
  • Baby brokers and viral adoptions
  • "Is the baby okay?"
  • A twin walks alone
  • Blindly searching
  • Fairy tales
  • The letters
  • Storms
  • The fog
  • "I got her"
  • Strangers in the village
  • "They love her"
  • They are coming
  • Motion sickness
  • The cold
  • The night
  • "Harder than this"
  • Always Loan
  • "Where I am from" == "Be with us"
  • Goodbye
  • "I will come back"
  • America
  • "We're still here"
  • Switched
  • Powerful marks
  • Similar scars
  • Unspoken
  • Grandma
  • Where it feels safe
  • Climb out
  • Epilogue.

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