Contents

Introduction

The Temperature

The Sound of My Name is Revolution

I Am From a Revolution

Asian American History 101

How Often Do You Masturbate?

Return to Sender

The Price of Silence

More Than Salt Can Hold

A Very Terrible Trauma

Dear White Family,

Relinquishment Quiz

Consider

Drop Box

My Body’s DMZ

Said Child

For My Mother

Jealousy

Mother’s Day Mourning

Honor Thy Father

Birthday Surprise!

My Last Birthday

See Out of These Slits

Harry Holt’s Little Shop of Horrors

Fuck You, White Barbie

Eyes Wide Open

Racist Hair

Spa Stories

My Body is Testimony

100 Day American

Dear adopters,

Assimilation

Seventh Grade White Men

Stupid Things People Say to Adopted Koreans

Are You My Mother?

The Map of My Body

Cousinland

What Language Do You Dream In?

The Words Don’t Fit in My Brain

Homeland Insecurities

What Do You Miss About Korea?

After I Left

Dual Citizen

A Holocaust of Children

Death Should Not Inspire Me

Open Letter to the Korean Red Cross

KADalicious

The Plane to France

Pyeongchang 2018 Charter

Korean ICA—Internment Camps of Abduction

North of the 38th or Mr. Obama Please Apologize!

Teleporting Babies

Psalm for White Saviors

My Ancestors Were Royalty

Notes

Acknowledgments

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