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Wills, Jenny Heijun.
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Wills, Jenny Heijun.
Wills, Jenny Heijun -- Family.
Adoptees -- Canada -- Biography.
Adoptees -- Family relationships -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Interracial adoption -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Adoptees -- Identification.
Korean Canadian women -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Ethnic identity -- Anecdotes.
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Wills, Jenny Heijun.
Wills, Jenny Heijun.
Wills, Jenny Heijun -- Family.
Adoptees -- Canada -- Biography.
Adoptees -- Family relationships -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Interracial adoption -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Adoptees -- Identification.
Korean Canadian women -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Ethnic identity -- Anecdotes.
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Older
sister
. Not
necessarily
related
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memoir
/ Jenny Heijun Wills.
by
Wills, Jenny Heijun.
McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
Call #:
362.734089 W741o
Subjects
Wills, Jenny Heijun.
Wills, Jenny Heijun -- Family.
Adoptees -- Canada -- Biography.
Adoptees -- Family relationships -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Interracial adoption -- Canada -- Anecdotes.
Adoptees -- Identification.
Korean Canadian women -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Biography.
Korean Canadians -- Ethnic identity -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780771070891 (hc.)
Description:
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A
memoir
of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. At the guesthouse for transnational adoptees where she lived, alliances were troubled by violence and fraught with the trauma of separation and of cultural illiteracy. Unsurprisingly, heartbreakingly, Wills found that her nascent relationships with her family were similarly fraught. Ten years later, Wills sustains close ties with her Korean family. Her Korean parents and her younger
sister
attended her wedding in Montreal, and that same
sister
now lives in Canada. Remarkably, meeting Jenny caused her birth parents to reunite after having been estranged since her adoption. Little by little, Jenny Heijun Wills is learning and relearning her stories and those of her biological kin, piecing together a fragmented life into something resembling a whole. Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women--sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces--this book describes the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness."--From publisher.
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