A review by gracereadsandruns
Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong by Georgina Lawton

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Raceless by Georgina Lawton is an amazing memoir, recounting her experience being passed for white by her white parents and her subsequent search for her racial identity as an adult. I went back and forth between print and audio and it is amazing in both formats. I could not put the book down, as the author described her  journey to shaping her identity as an adult. Having her own family all pretend that they don't see color resulted in a lot of mixed emotions for her as the rest of the world went on disbelieving the reality that her parents led her to believe. I really enjoyed reading how she worked on learning more about her identity through searching for DNA data, living in parts of the world different from her predominantly white, British town and how she went to therapy to deal with the hurt that her parents caused. I can't do this book justice in my review, as the content hit very close to home for me and had me feeling all kinds of things.