Last week our Korean Connection book club went to see visiting author Mei Ling Hopgood - Lucky Girl is her book. I had found a review of her book in the paper and the book club decided to read it and go hear her speak. Here is a picture from the event: She is the Asian woman in the middle.
She was adopted as a young girl from China and the book chronicles her getting to know her Chinese birth family. The book club was interested in reading the book and meeting the author because we have read many books written by Korean adoptees who are upset by the lack of culture exposure or interest their American parents showed as they grew up. Mei Ling didn't feel this way and said many positive things about her adoptive parents.
I finished the book when we went to see her and she read some excerpts from it. She read the scene where she describes hearing that her birthfamily is interested in seeing her. When I read it for the first time, the velvet dress she was wearing and food she was preparing when she got the phone call was very vivid. I loved hearing her read it as well.
It was nice having a few minutes to talk to her and tell her about our group. She has two Korean brothers who were adopted as well and this connection was nice for our book club group.
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