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188 - Erika Hayasaki - Author of Somewhere Sisters
Erika Hayasaki is the author of Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family, (Algonquin Books, October 2022). Somewhere Sisters is a story full of heart about two twin sisters from Vietnam separated at birth. The book also shines a light on the complex and often dirty side of adoption.
Erika teaches in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine. She is a journalist interested in the intersections of identity, race, psychology, inequality, science, technology, history, and the human condition.
Her stories appear in The New York Times…
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