Adoptee Song

In "Adoptee Song", Maria S. Picone provides a candid, insightful and taut account of her experience as an adoptee from South Korea. She writes, "At four months old, I relinquished my rights as a Korean citizen. I became a doorway without country, swinging open and shut." There's a straddling of cultures, a longing for what was lost, and a frustration with an adopted country too eager to label what it can't comprehend. Picone examines names, identity, and family in a way that makes space for anger, frustration, and mourning for what might have been. Her words strike and linger. This is an important collection, worthy of more readers now and in the years to come.