| Descript |
226 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Summary |
"For years, Korean adoptee Jane Jeong Trenka tried to be the ideal daughter. She was always polite, earned perfect grades, and excelled as a concert pianist. She went to church with her American family in small-town Minnesota and learned not to ask about the mother who had given her away. Then, while she was far from home on a music scholarship, living in a big city for the first time, one of her fellow university students began to follow her, his obsession ultimately escalating into a plot for her murder." "In prose that ranges seamlessly from pure lyricism to harrowing realism, Trenka recounts repeated close encounters with her stalker and the years of repressed questions that her ordeal awakened. Determined not to be defined by her stalker's twisted assessment of her worth, she struck out in search of her own identity - free of western stereotypes of geishas and good girls. Doing so, however, meant confronting her American family and fighting the bureaucracy at the agency that had arranged for her adoption."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Awards |
Minnesota Book Award for Autobiography & Memoir, 2004. |
| Subject |
Trenka, Jane Jeong, 1972-
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Trenka, Jane Jeong, 1972- -- Childhood and youth.
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Korean American women -- Biography.
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Korean Americans -- Biography.
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Adopted children -- United States -- Biography.
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Intercountry adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Korean American children -- Cultural assimilation.
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Minnesota -- Biography.
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Seoul Region (Korea) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0873514661 (alk. paper) |
| OCLC# |
ocm51868188 |
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