Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption

by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770463305
• ISBN13: 9781770463301
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher