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TROY alumna’s book recounts experience of reconnecting with Korean birth family decades after her adoption

Gilbert, center, meets her Korean brother and sister for the first time in 44 years.

Gilbert, center, meets her Korean brother and sister for the first time in 44 years.

Decades after being adopted from a South Korean orphanage by an American family, Troy University alumna Amy Gilbert (’92) reconnected with her birth family and her heritage and has written a book about her experiences.

Published last year, “Becoming Korean: A Memoir” charts Gilberts’ journey from what she called a “normal American childhood” to the…

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