Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- Adapted from jacket.
Review Quotes: A Booklist 2023 Editor's Choice
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
★ "An ambitiously authentic adoption story where fiction does the work of truth, and archives, correspondence, and health records provide the roots of fantasy."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ "A fantastical, transcendent memory collage that shirks convention in search of what is real and true about familial bonds."--
PW, starred review
★ "Readers will praise the raw honesty and insight in this lovingly crafted memoir."--
Booklist, starred review
"An authentic journey for adoptees who are not allowed to feel sad but thrust into a stance of gratitude for a life they were given and for all readers who, after a loss, are reconstructing their identities."--
SLJ "This deeply felt and unusually creative book is recommended for readers aged fourteen to adult, and will be an especially important resource for people of all ages with a connection to transracial adoption. The final section of the book, a group text thread including the author and other writers with this background, resonates with the solace of shared experience."--
Minneapolis Star Tribune "Gibney captures such interior and intimate adoptee feelings. It's so rare to see it evoked on the page. Breathtakingly beautiful."--Kimberly McKee, PhD, author of
Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
