Somewhere Sisters, It Is Out Now

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Erica: The conversations that I had with the sisters over the years took me into moments of my own life and childhood. They're allowing me to examine these questions that I really started with when I was like 13, but I actually didn't get away from because this wasn't easy for me to pitch those kind of stories even then. In the next year, I have different ideas that I would never, I don't think it would have ever been approved five years ago, even, but now they are. We'll see you next week.

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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