"The story is complex. It's not the, oh, they had a happy reunion," she says of her interview subjects. "Some of these scenes were quite traumatic and so you always have to be so careful with how you prepare people that you're writing about for what they're sharing"
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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