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christie_esau's review
4.0
A difficult but highly necessary read as a white adoptive parent to a Black son. Reading what adoptees have to say about their experiences is a profoundly important task for adoptive parents.
As a side note, it's a strange feeling to read a book briefly set at my alma mater, and stranger still to realize a person you had classes with wrote a book.
As a side note, it's a strange feeling to read a book briefly set at my alma mater, and stranger still to realize a person you had classes with wrote a book.
rebeconda's review against another edition
4.0
Courageous, painful memoir about being born to a Ghanaian immigrant teen mom in BC, then adopted by a white Pentecostal family. Having myself grown up partially in BC, I recognized familiar places and spiritual dynamics. This is a heart wrenching and essential story about adoption, white supremacy, and religion that fuels both.
jannythelibrarian's review against another edition
audiobook memoir. read by author (maybe should have hired someone to read his book). focused heavily on religious upbringing - lots of church and god etc. not what i expected. sad story. lin says he eventually talks about how he left his faith at end. but majority of book talks about childhood.
wchereads's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
5.0
I am floored
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse
bespectacled_bibliophile's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
ajbeverley's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book is a gift to the world. It feels intimate, funny, evocative, piercing, raw.