"I kind of hold her accountable in a way or point that out in your voice," she says. "Structurally, there were moments where I could bring in the voices and elevate the voices of experts who are adoptees ... It is complicated going through it because you have these mixed emotions."
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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