Praise for Marie Myung-Ok Lee's Somebody's Daughter

In this moving portrayal of an adopted girl's search for her biological mother, Marie Lee gives voice and validation to a segment of the Korean American community that has been overlooked too long and too often. Somebody's Daughter is a gift for those forgotten, for the thousands of Korean children adopted by white parents, for those who search and yearn for a sense of home and self.
- Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman and Fox Girl
Somebody's Daughter by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, is that rare book, that rare page-turner, the one you cannot put down, the one you will suspend washing the laundry for or cooking breakfast for. It is the novel you will open and read in one urgent breath as you take in the storyteller's compelling tale of lives felt long after the book's end as you turn off the light to sleep.
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Wild Meat and The Bully Burgers
In a time when Asian adoptions are more and more commonplace, Marie Myung-Ok Lee's Somebody's Daughter hits an important and unique chord: the POV of the adopted child, now grown up and searching for her lost roots. Lee manages to be both comic and frank in this story of one girl's journey back to Korea, and her lost mother's own journey toward redemption.
- Ann Hood, author of The Ornithologist's Guide to Life, Ruby,
and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
What a beautifully realized and emotionally rich but subtle novel this is. Lee's story of one young woman's search for self in Korea will resonate equally with both adult and young adult readers - a remarkable achievement.
- Michael Cart, author of Necessary Noise: Stories of Our Families as They Really Are
With a pen dipped in deepest longing and grief, Marie Myung-Ok Lee has written an affecting novel of an adoption.
- Jacqueline Mitchard, author of Deep End of the Ocean