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Feb.22,2008 07:39 KST Article Location: Click Here
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The New York Times on Wednesday wrote about Kim Sunee's confessional memoir, "Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home", in its Dining & Wine section. In the book, Sunee poetically describes foods from places she has traveled and lived in, including South Korea, Sweden, and France. The book is a record of Sunee's craving for food and love. Although she grew up in comfortable circumstances in New Orleans since she was adopted in 1973, she could never erase from her mind the physical and emotional hungers of her childhood. As a promising poet in the early 1990s, she met and fell in love with a French businessman 17 years her senior, Olivier Baussan, the founder of L'Occitane, the line of natural soaps and cosmetics. Sunee moved into Baussan's Provencal farmhouse in France, where she appeased her hungers with local gourmet foods. But the food and surroundings weren't enough to help her find her identity. Five years after moving to France, she left Baussan and returned home. She later met a bartender named Roger and grew to love him while cooking together. Sunee now can talk about her life with serenity. As the newspaper wrote, "she has come to believe that abandoning a child can be an act of love: 'I survived. More than survived.'" |
reference work, is to be published by Greenwood Press in late 2008.
The encyclopedia consists of fifty narrative entries/chapters
organized alphabetically by state. Each entry will be 5,000 words in
length and the publisher will pay $200 for each entry. Currently, the
editor is soliciting additional contributors for the following state
entries: (1) Arkansas; (2) Delaware; (3) Iowa; (4) Kentucky; (5)
Louisiana; (6) Maine; (7) Nebraska; (8) Nevada; (9) New Hampshire;
(10) New Mexico; (11) North Carolina; (12) North Dakota; (13)
Pennsylvania; (14) South Carolina; (15) Tennessee; and (16) Vermont.
If interested, please contact Professor Jun Xing by e-mail:
jxing@oregonstate.edu or by phone: (541) 737-9546.
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This is an incredible book written by renowned author and psychologist Dr. Sook Wilkinson. Although Dr. Wilkinson is not an adoptee, I believe her research is conducted with the up-most respect and understanding toward adopted people. Her findings are startlingly accurate, thereby helping to legitimize the many difficult experiences of young Adopted Koreans. I had the honor of writing an additional piece for the most recent addition of Birth Is More Than Once.
For more information please visit Dr. Wilkinson's website.
To purchase this book, Click Here.
Asian American Adoptee Anthology
"Each and every Asian American Adoptee has a different story. However, we all have one thing in common and that's the need to be heard. I am searching for a collection of essays, memoirs, and poems written by Asian American Adoptees. Submissions should reflect Asian American Adoptee issues and experiences. This anthology will reveal various aspects of adoption, serve as a link between Asian American Adoptees, an encouraging guide for many who face the long and hard road to discovering and accepting identity, and an insightful read for adoptive parents. Submissions will be collected for the intention of publishing a book."
Submission deadline: July 1, 2007
E-mail submissions to: Joohlee22@gmail.com
Please include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail
address, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope for either return of
work or response from editor. Please make sure to include enough
postage for return of manuscript (if that is desired). Submissions
should be legible.
For information and updates visit: http://www.xanga.com
