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Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption
Who owns the story of an adoption? Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world...
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Who owns the story of an adoption?
Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sj blom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. "Be thankful," she was told; surely her life in Sweden was better than it would have been in Korea. Like many adoptees, Sj blom learned to bury the feeling of abandonment. In Palimpsest, an emotionally charged memoir, Sj blom's unaddressed feelings about her adoption come to a head when she is pregnant with her first child. When she discovers a document containing the names of her biological parents, she realizes her own history may not match up with the story she's been told her whole life: that she was an orphan without a background. As Sj blom digs deeper into her own backstory, returning to Korea and the orphanage, she finds that the truth is much more complicated than the story she was told and struggled to believe. The sacred image of adoption as a humanitarian act that gives parents to orphans begins to unravel. Sj blom's beautiful autumnal tones and clear-line style belie the complicated nature of this graphic memoir's vital central question: Who owns the story of an adoption?Author: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781770463301
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 57
About the Author
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is an illustrator, a cartoonist, and a graphic designer living in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner and two children. She has a master's degree in literature from Södertörn University and has studied at the Comic Art School in Malmö. Palimpsest is her first graphic novel. She is an adoptee rights activist.
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