pickA novel about adoption and the connection between the adopted person and birth parents. The emotional aspects of sealed records and struggles are often overlooked in what people hope will be a kind if “new love” for the adopted person and her/his birth parents. A reporter named Jane becomes involved in helping her friend Tuck. What follows is dangerous and more than a bit difficult. 3.75/5⭐️
I #found a spine poem on my shelves:
Homebody life,
The knowing, trouble…
Kitchen table wisdom
in a special light.
Survival lessons
A tear and a smile
Man‘s search for meaning -
I‘d rather be reading
#Bibliophile
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickWhat a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏
so-soDriven by curiosity, she searches for her birth mother, only to discover that her mother was a serial killer's victim—and she herself is a by product of that tragedy. Her life unravels as she becomes entangled in an FBI investigation while grappling with personal turmoil. The chilling developments that unfold are full of suspense. Narrated in the second person, the chapters are written as psychological sessions, adding depth to the narrative. 🎧
#abtadoption #bibliophile this one covers both sides of adoption through one unique character.
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI think the sun is going down on my last summery day 😭 so I am sitting on my balcony reading about books and drinking a birthday bottle. I think the tagged book will be the one I take to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival this year to read. Turns out my parents will be in old Sydney town for dad‘s drs appointments to do with his accident not this January but the last so we will catch up for dinner both nights and they have booked the same hotel as me.
