autobiographical, with Hillel Italie of Associated Press expressing concern that Kim's vagueness regarding dates and locations prevented the book's facts from being verifiable. It was particularly controversial in the Korean American community, some of whose members accused Kim of "exploiting the issue of biraciality" and "trying to take advantage of the [then] current interest in autobiographies, particularly those that involved violence against women". Others objected to the description of her mother's murder as an "honor killing" as being inconsistent with Korean culture. However, Korean American writer Kim Sun-jung defended the book, criticizing B. R. Myers, who lambasted what he described as the book's "ludicrous inaccuracies" about Korean culture, because Myers himself was not Korean. Reviews Koji Nnamdi, WAMU Seiwoong Oh, Western American Literature Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Adoption Quarterly Tracy Dianne Wood, Ph.D. dissertation, U.C. Riverside Editions and translations Ten Thousand Sorrows was published in the following editions: Audiobook (read by the author): United Kingdom edition: It was translated into eleven languages. The below list gives unofficial translations of the foreign-language titles where the original title was not preserved. Chinese: Dutch: Danish: Finnish: German: Hungarian: Korean: Turkish: Italian: Japanese: Polish: Further editions were published in two of those languages: German paperback: Hungarian paperback: References Living people 1954 births South Korean emigrants to the United States American writers of Korean descent American women journalists American adoptees South Korean adoptees Writers from San Rafael, California 21st-century American women