Somebody's Daughter

This is a very entertaining story about Sarah Thorson, a woman who was born in Korea but was adopted by a Minnesota family. With her identity problems, she decides to visit Korea to study Korean and try to find out something about her birth mother. When she finds out that her mother did not die in an accident as she'd always been told, she sets out to find her mother. Meanwhile, the novel also tells the story of Kyung-sook, and how many years earlier she became pregnant and had to give up her baby. The author uses a lot of Korean–which I enjoyed, since I've spent a lot of time in the country–and mentions lots of place names, foods, musical instruments, but these things are almost always clear in the context since the protagonist is also learning, just as the reader is. A nicely made fiction.