What is your favorite type of cuisine?

I will always choose Korean food first.  I love that Shari Leid is also from South Korea and she traveled across the US to do one of my favorite things, eat!

Shari was adopted at a young age but a Japanese family, I loved learning about her story, since I can relate to being adopted but especially from South Korea.  She even grew up in Seattle, I mostly grew up in the Seattle area, so I was able to understand some of her feelings growing up in the PNW. 

What’s unique to her, is, she was adopted by a Japanese family and her father, and his family were sent to internment camps during WW2. 

With this trauma, her dad instilled fear that she would not be welcome everywhere in the US.  I’ve traveled quite a bit around the US, and I’ve seen and experienced things that have made me feel nervous for sure.

I loved not only learning about all of the women that Shari met up with across the country, but she brought heart and honesty about her own struggles, insecurities and her divorce, while this whole project was happening. 

I genuinely enjoyed this book, and all of these heartfelt stories.

Thank you @pacificandcourt for this gifted copy!

Table for 51 by Shari Leid is available on our Amazon storefront!