The book is about twin sisters Isabelle and Ha, who were born in Vietnam but separated at birth. "I started reporting it like five years ago," the author says of her twins' story. The tension between what's real and what she just learned from a video that was taken off her when she was younger is one of the themes for this book.
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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