Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

by Marianne Novy

Adoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and Jane Jeong Trenka experienced, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parents Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered.

Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439925895
• ISBN13: 9781439925898
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"