Language of Blood A Memoir

Name: Language of Blood A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781555974268

ISBN-10: 1555974260

ISBN-13: 9781555974268

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Authors: Jane Jeong Trenka

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“A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is Jeong Kyong-Ah. My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I come from a land of pear fields and streams, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. Halfway around the world, I am someone else. Jane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the small, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota—a place “where the sky touches the earth in uninterrupted horizon . . . where stoicism is stamped into the bones of each…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Jane Jeong Trenka has won numerous awards and fellowships for her writing. The Language of Blood is her first book.