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#adoption #IntercountryAdoption #TransracialAdoption

Erika Hayasaki’s _Somewhere Sisters_ is a story of two women separated from their mother in Việt Nam and adopted into different families. Keely is the white American adoptive mother of Isabella, twin sister of Hà. Olivia is Keely’s other adoptive daughter, also born in Việt Nam. Hayasaki’s book beautifully balances their stories while centering those of Isabella and Hà. This is how Keely reacted.

#adoption #IntercountryAdoption

“In Red Thread narratives originating in the East, a matchmaker arranged marriages by tying red strings between people who were deemed fated from birth to marry each other. In the West, adoptive parents reinterpreted the plot, which was repeated in internet forums and children’s books targeting adopted children, elevating fate as its central theme, the idea that orphans were predestined to end up with their adoptive parents. +