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Reviewed on July 1, 2018 | Adult Books 4 Teens
Lee tackles the white savior mentality that dominates attitudes about intercountry adoption (ICA) in this searing memoir in poems. Adopted by white Christians as a result of the Korean War, the poet explores her journey from Korea to Minnesota to Los Angles and dissects and dismantles, through potently wrought verse, the white supremacy that underlay her adoption and the adoption of approximately 200,000 Koreans and the continued injustice of ICA: "profiting from y...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
