Somebody's Daughter (41 page)

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© 2005 by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lee, Marie Myung-Ok.
Somebody's Daughter / Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
p. cm.
Summary: Adopted and raised by Scandinavian-American parents in Minnesota,
a Korean teenager returns to her native country to find her mother.
eISBN: 978-0-8070-9722-9
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8389-5 (pbk.: acid-free paper)
[1. Mothers—Fiction. 2. Adoption—Fiction. 3. Korea—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.L5139So 2005
[Fic]—dc22  2004025757

Portions of this novel have appeared in slightly
different form in:
The American Voice
, no. 39,
1996;
American Eyes
(Henry Holt, 1994);
Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian
American Women
(Beacon Press, 1997).

All the characters in this book are fictional;
any resemblance to real people is entirely
coincidental and unintentional.