Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom with Hanna Strömberg (Translator)

157 pages first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

nonfiction comics memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout...

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Moods

emotional 88%
informative 80%
sad 73%
reflective 64%
challenging 42%
dark 31%
hopeful 17%
inspiring 11%
tense 11%
mysterious 6%
adventurous 2%

Pace

medium 54%
slow 25%
fast 20%

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4.32

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