Girl Uprooted

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Growing up Lena Lee never knew where she belonged. As the daughter of a diplomat she moved countries every three years her world swinging between East and West. While her father tried to instill traditional Confucian values in his children Lena was quick to disown her Korean roots at school even pretending she couldn't speak her mother tongue.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By the time she returned home to South Korea at the age of 22 Lena's inner and outer lives were worlds apart. On paper she was an Oxford graduate about to start a promising career in London; behind the scenes her twenties were plagued by drinking and depression as a lifetime of shapeshifting took its toll.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ultimately it would take an explosive family rupture to force Lena to confront her mental health issues and ask herself: Who was she? And where if anywhere did she belong?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with unreserved candor and vulnerability <em>Girl Uprooted</em> is a fascinating exploration of identity and what it means to belong when you straddle multiple cultures languages friendships and homes.</strong></p>