Lucky Girl: A Memoir
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Publication Year
2009
ISBN
9781565126008
Pages
244 pages
Genre
memoir
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
In a true story of family ties, journalist Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
Grade Level
9-12; Adult
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; Multiracial; adopted child; adopted adult; international adoption; interracial/transracial adoption; interracial family; multiracial family
Main Character
adult female
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Korean; Taiwanese) / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Keywords
birth parents; birth family; Taiwan; Korea; journalist; identity; reunion; culture differences
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Hopgood, Mei-Ling, "Lucky Girl: A Memoir" (2009). Diverse Families. 1956.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1956