This week, Evan Ratliff interviews Erica Hayasaki. She has a new book out called Somewhere Sisters about three young women who were born in Vietnam and are adopted by different families. Hayesaki talks about how she got into journalism after grappling with her own racial identity as an Asian American girl growing up in Illinois.
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
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