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The Girl I Am, Was and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

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the girl i am, was and never

Part memoir, part speculative fiction, this novel explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee.

Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with a new book woven from her true story of growing up as the adopted Black daughter of white parents and the fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth by the white woman who gave her up for adoption.

At its core, the novel is a tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete picture of their origins. Gibney surrounds that story with reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience.

The end result is a remarkable portrait of an American experience rarely depicted in any form.---from the publisher

256 pages 978-0593111994 Ages 14-17

Keywords: transracial adoption, girls and women, memoir, Black Girl books, 14 year old, 15 year old, 16 year old, prejudice and racism, social issues, Printz Honor Award

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