Finding My Voice, Marie MyungOk Lee
Finding My Voice, Marie MyungOk Lee
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Finding My Voice

Author: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Narrator: Jaine Ye

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

The groundbreaking Own Voices classic by celebrated author Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But hers is the only Korean American family in town, and her classmates in Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she’s different. At the start of senior year, Ellen finds herself falling for Tomper Sandel, a football player who is popular and blond and undeniably cute . . . and to her surprise, he falls for her, too. Now Ellen has a chance at life she never imagined, one that defies the expectations of both her core friend group and her strict parents. But even as she stands up to racism at school and disapproval at home, all while pursuing a romance with Tomper, Ellen discovers that her greatest challenge is one she never expected: finding the courage to speak up and raise her voice.

About Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an acclaimed Korean American writer and author of the young adult novel Finding my Voice, thought to be one of the first contemporary-set Asian American YA novels. She is one of a handful of American journalists who have been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War. She was the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, including an O. Henry honorable mention, the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The Guardian, among others. Marie is a founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at Columbia. She lives in New York City with her family.


Reviews

Unlike anything, I can recall reading. This book is a bit of an odd one for me. Because it read more like a memoir than a novel. It was a quick, easy read, dotted with familiar themes that I think most Asian Americans can relate to. The part I enjoyed the most was the fact that the novel felt very h......more

Goodreads review by dewi

Thanks to NetGalley and SoHo Teen for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Finding My Voice tells the story of "Ellen" Sung, a Korean girl living in Arkin, Minnesota. Ellen struggles with being 'different' (read being Asian in an all-white community), racist people, and the......more

tw/cw - racism, racial issues, parental pressure, bullying okay. that was important. it honestly feels like a diary. discussing third culture kids' issues, pressure and fights. last chapter made me cry.......more