num_pages: 280
description: A "heartwarming and heartbreaking"* story of a Korean American girl's search for her rootsSomebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage, eventually embarking on a crusade to find her birth mother. Paralleling Sarah's story is that of Kyung-sook, who was forced by difficult circumstances to let her baby be swept away from her immediately after birth, but who has always longed for her lost child.
language: English
title: Somebody's Daughter
titlecomplete: Somebody's Daughter
genres: Asian Literature, Young Adult, Novels, Adoption, Adult, Fiction, Cultural, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Family
ratings_count: 343
publisher: Beacon Press