A review by kingfan30
Ten Thousand Sorrows, by Elizabeth Kim

3.0

I’m in two minds about this book. There is no denying it’s a terrible story, to witness an honour killing and then go on to be adopted by a very odd couple, however I couldn’t help question how she could remember so much of her early life with her birth mother when it comes across that she was very young when it happened. I also question when this all occurred as there is no indication as to what year, and yet when she arrives in America to live with her adoptive parents, she talks about the segregation of the races so it appears to be some time ago and may explain, what I can only call, the strange behaviour of her new family. And there’s so much early life and seemed to rush though her later life.