Voices from Another Place: A Collection of Works from a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries

By Susan Soon-Keum Cox

A collection of works from a generation born in Korea and adopted to other countries. In the deepest recesses of memory, perhaps some clue remains, some shadowy recollection of a mother, of a land,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963847244
• ISBN13: 9780963847249
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Yeong & Yeong
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 2 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Voices from Another Place

As the older sibling of a Korean adoptee, I still remember the delight of welcoming my sister into our home 47 years ago. That was before the adoption of anyone in this book! Yet there were things I did not know, especially about the Korean culture. Not everything in the book applied to my sister, whose biological father was American. Each story is unqiue. Yet I have grieved with her over the losses and the special challenges that this book validates. It helps me know how to talk with her more. It helps me see her as a super survivor and to better understand the difficulties my parents had in understanding her needs. How I appreciate all who helped to tell the collective story!

Families created through adoption

Voices from Another Place is a wonderful book for all international adoptive families to read. The feelings expressed by the adult adoptees are genuine and extremely sensitive. I reccomend the book to all adoptive parents of Korean born children. Much has changed in the adoption field over the last 40 years and social workers today are more in tune with the needs of adoptees to know their culture and past. This book clearly demonstrates the importance of acknowledging the adoptees past openly and honestly within the adoptive family.

Adopted Koreans Share Their Creativity and Diversity

With a mixture of poetry, fiction, memoir, essay, photography and artwork, Voices from Another Place captures and conveys the hearts and minds of a creative and diverse group of adopted Koreans who share their struggles and successes from their own perspectives. From common roots as children in Korea, these voices speak of a generation of adults living around the world.