The Language of Blood (Paperback)

"A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family,
identity." --"Star Tribune" (Minneapolis)
"My name is Jeong Kyong-Ah. My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I come from a land of pear fields and streams, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. Halfway around the world, I am someone else."
Jane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the small, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota--a place "where the sky touches the earth in uninterrupted horizon . . . where stoicism is stamped into the bones of each generation." They were loved as American children without a past.
With inventive and radiant prose that includes real and imagined letters, a fairy tale, a one-act play, crossword puzzles, and child-welfare manuals, Trenka recounts a childhood of insecurity, a battle with a stalker that escalates to a plot for her murder, and an extraordinary trip to Seoul to meet her birth mother and siblings. Lost between two cultures for the majority of her life, it is in Korea that she begins to understand her past and the power of the unspoken language of blood.

General

Imprint:	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	July 2005
Authors:	Jane Jeong Trenka
Dimensions:	215 x 131 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-1-55597-426-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55597-426-0
Barcode:	9781555974268

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