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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Required reading for all transracial adoptive parents. We need to learn from adoptees, not other adoptive parents.
A powerfully important memoir which brings the mechanisms of interracial family racism into sharp focus. I learned so much from this book.
Wowowow. Rebecca truly “survived.” This poignant memoir delves into both the desire of adoptees to know their birth families, but also understand their racial identity. Considering what it would be like to have those two conflict is something great and not to be ignored.
Such a great audiobook of Rebecca as an adoptees experiencing growing up black in a white family. She describes pivotal conversations she has over the years that lead her through meeting her birth mother, strained relationships with white boyfriends and their racists parents and moments throughout her career. It was so interesting to hear her process what exactly does it mean to be black with so many conflicting realities around her such as in the way she talks, being in a relationship with a white man where she wonders what his true intentions are or whether she really feels seen and balancing her relationships with her white mom + dad and black birth mom + dad. Very well written story.
Overall I liked this book and the dynamics between the many different parents and supporters in Rebecca’s life. However, at times, I found myself bored. It was an interesting account of adoption and her life- just not my favorite book.
I listened to the audiobook. I haven't read anything from this perspective before, and I'm glad I did now. Rebecca's experience was not easy, which is why it's so important that she shared it.
Beautiful memoir written by a beautiful author. A heartbreaking but wonderful story of a self-identity and self-discovery.
Loved this engrossing memoir. White supremacy is so insidious. White people are so oblivious to our violence.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced