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Inconvenient Daughter (2020)

por Lauren J Sharkey

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"Rowan Kelly knows she's lucky. After all, if she hadn't been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones - they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she'll never know if she has her mother's eyes, or if she'd be in America at all had her adoptive parents been able to conceive. Rowan sets out to prove that she can be someone's first choice. After running away from home - and her parents' rules - and ending up beaten, barefoot, and topless on a Pennsylvania street courtesy of Bad Boy Number One, Rowan attaches herself to Never-Going-to-Commit. When that doesn't work out, she fully abandons self-respect and begins browsing Craigslist personals. But as Rowan dives deeper into the world of casual encounters with strangers, she discovers what she's really looking for."--Provided by publisher.… (más)
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An adopted Korean teenage girl runs away from home and, while trying to fit into her Caucasian family and feel accepted, continually chooses the wrong boyfriends and ends up in many casual encounters and abusive relationships.

This book begins as a rather humorous young adult book, but gradually deals with emotional and complex issues of self-esteem. To make the story flow a little more smoothly, I would have appreciated a more in-depth look at the relationship between Rowan and her mother. ( )
  pinklady60 | Sep 14, 2020 |
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Rowan is adopted from China by good intentioned parents. A lack of open communication between Rowan and her mother create a heart-breaking rift. Mom assumes Rowan understands her parenting style with its focus on Rowan becoming a strong, independent adult. Rowan doesn't get it at all.

She whines and criticizes her mother. She comes off as a bit of a demanding diva BUT... her mother works many hours care-giving, cooking for, and nurturing some of the neighborhood children. This greatly reduces much-needed maternal time for Rowan. Despite Rowan's obvious jealousy, Mother misguidedly doesn't feel the need to change or modify her work schedule.

I believe it is this that causes major problems for Rowan in the future.

Good but sad read; a bit disappointing.
  Bookish59 | Jul 12, 2020 |
Rowan only knows life living in suburban Long Island, but everyone seems to identify her as Korean. She was adopted from Korea by her Catholic parents and knows nothing of Korea. She worries that she’s never been wanted, and like a teenager doesn’t know how to deal with that other than by isolating herself from those who care about her. The first-person narrative does an excellent job in portraying roan’s loneliness and search for identity. It seems a little uneven and that is distracting. ( )
  brangwinn | Jul 12, 2020 |
It is quite hard to review this book, which wasn;t dissimilar to the last book I read, Pizza Girl - both had a young protagonist with roots in South Korea and was deeply lost and confused.
Rowan has a really odd relationship with her adopted mother, and I was never sure if the mother was horrible or if Rowan was unreasonable - this relationship wasn't explored quite enough for me. But when Rowan finally leaves home, she ends up in a horribly abusive relationship, and when she drops out of college she has a series of unpleasant encounters with men she meets online.
Like Pizza Girl, Rowan was a frustrating character for me and I couldn;t quite understand what her motivation was and why she seemed to hate her mother so much. The book also jumps about quite a lot and major events are brushed over really quickly. I felt it needed a bit more depth, and the ending felt really rushed.
A very quick read but slightly unsatisfying. ( )
  AHouseOfBooks | Jul 7, 2020 |
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Despite being adopted from Korea as an infant, Rowan hasn't really identified with her Asian roots nor been interested in finding out more about her biological family. She's grown up more or less an all-American girl, but has always had a challenging relationship with her adoptive mother. Taking a more rebellious path in college, partly to spite her family, leads her down a dangerous and frightening path.

Though being semi-autobiographical gives it more compelling, I can't say that the book resonated with me as much as I might have hoped. The unexpected, 180° ending threw me and felt incongruous, or at least a bit too pat, when compared with the rest of the story. I did come away wondering if the author is OK?!

I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. ( )
  ryner | Jun 30, 2020 |
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"Rowan Kelly knows she's lucky. After all, if she hadn't been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones - they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she'll never know if she has her mother's eyes, or if she'd be in America at all had her adoptive parents been able to conceive. Rowan sets out to prove that she can be someone's first choice. After running away from home - and her parents' rules - and ending up beaten, barefoot, and topless on a Pennsylvania street courtesy of Bad Boy Number One, Rowan attaches herself to Never-Going-to-Commit. When that doesn't work out, she fully abandons self-respect and begins browsing Craigslist personals. But as Rowan dives deeper into the world of casual encounters with strangers, she discovers what she's really looking for."--Provided by publisher.

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