In 2018, after a trip to Seoul for the Winter Olympics, Amy Evans Gilbert discovered she had family in her birth country of South Korea. This is her debut memoir about her journey of Becoming Korean again after 44 years of trying to live as a white American. Amy is a wife and empty nester after raising four children. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband and loves traveling to her birth country and other places all over the world.
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Becoming Korean is the true story of one woman’s journey, and sometimes struggle, to embrace the nation and the heritage of the country that gave her up for adoption. After being adopted as a child and living in a white American family, she found her Korean family at the age of forty-nine, and developed relationships with them. This book describes how she is re-discovering the culture, language and family that were lost and forgotten. She shares her joys and losses of being adopted, living in America and Becoming Korean.
Becoming Korean 