Name: Somewhere Out There, There's More: My Experience of Adoption, My Search for Understanding and the Twist That Changed Everything (en Inglés)
SKU: 66559309
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Author: Huckaby, Ronna Quimby
ISBN: 9781681793924

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Somewhere Out There, There's More: My Experience of Adoption, My Search for Understanding and the Twist That Changed Everything (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Eakin Press

Autor

Huckaby, Ronna Quimby

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1 cm

ISBN13

9781681793924

Somewhere Out There, There's More: My Experience of Adoption, My Search for Understanding and the Twist That Changed Everything (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Somewhere Out There, There's More: My Experience of Adoption, My Search for Understanding and the Twist That Changed Everything (en Inglés)"

Somewhere Out There, There's More is a deeply personal and eye-opening memoir about adoption, identity, and the stories we think we know about ourselves.For decades, the author believed she understood her adoption story so well that she wrote her first book, Somewhere Out There: My Experience of Adoption and My Search for Understanding. But years later, a shocking discovery revealed that what she had been told-and what she had believed-was not the whole truth.Her journey began with a simple and practical need: medical history. Like many adoptees, she had little to no accurate information about her origins. What started as a search for health records became an investigation that exposed the barriers adoptees face when trying to access their own histories-and the carefully crafted narratives adoption agencies often provided.Adopted through the Homestead Maternity Home in Fort Worth, Texas, the author uncovers how agencies "marketed" children to adoptive parents, often repeating identical and sometimes misleading birth-parent profiles. With the help of a professional searcher-and her own persistence-she follows the trail from Texas to Hawaii to North Dakota, discovering just how small the world can be, and how complicated the truth often is.Drawing on her experience as a professional counselor, the author explores the feelings of abandonment, emptiness, and longing that many adoptees experience at some point in their lives. She reflects honestly on reunion, connection, and the realization that finding biological family does not automatically make someone whole. DNA, she reminds us, does not define family.