Virginia MacKay
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Twice a Daughter
- A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
- Auteur(s): Julie Ryan McGue
- Narrateur(s): Katie Hagman
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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What does it mean to grow up without a sense of who you are and where you come from? Julie is adopted. She’s also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their birth parents’ names - which becomes an issue for Julie when, at 48 years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
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Awesome!
- Écrit par Virginia MacKay le 2023-01-30
- Twice a Daughter
- A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
- Auteur(s): Julie Ryan McGue
- Narrateur(s): Katie Hagman
Awesome!
Évalué le: 2023-01-30
I can’t count how many times I had to pause just to have a good cry. This memoir brought about so many memories for me and of course the questions that come with being an adoptee. It amazes me how every time I read another adoptee memoir I feel like I’m part of a community that “gets me”.
Thank you Julie Ryan McGue ❤️
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American Baby
- A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
- Auteur(s): Gabrielle Glaser
- Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle Glaser, Margaret Katz
- Durée: 10 h et 37 min
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The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children.
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It’s a definite reread.
- Écrit par Virginia MacKay le 2021-03-03
- American Baby
- A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
- Auteur(s): Gabrielle Glaser
- Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle Glaser, Margaret Katz
It’s a definite reread.
Évalué le: 2021-03-03
I’ve read this book twice now and I’m in need of a third read. It’s not because it was confusing...it’s because I was scared I missed something. It was so good and so full of interesting subjects that I had to learn all I could from it...
This author really puts you in the story and makes you want to do something to change the laws surrounding adoption.
I can seriously hope that more people read this book and share it with their friends and family members. The world would benefit understanding adoption through the eyes of the only people that are truly affected by adoption.
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Famous Adopted People
- Auteur(s): Alice Stephens
- Narrateur(s): Roxelana Waters
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan, and the situation there - thanks mostly to her spontaneous, hard-partying ways - has become problematic. Now she’s in Seoul, South Korea, with her childhood best-friend, Mindy. The young women share a special bond: They are both Korean-born adoptees into white American families. Mindy is in Seoul to track down her birth mom, and wants Lisa to do the same. Trouble is Lisa isn’t convinced she needs to know about her past, much less meet her biological mother.
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Wow
- Écrit par Virginia MacKay le 2021-03-03
- Famous Adopted People
- Auteur(s): Alice Stephens
- Narrateur(s): Roxelana Waters
Wow
Évalué le: 2021-03-03
I wasn’t fully prepared for how much I was going to enjoy this book...I was pre-warned that it was going to have a wow factor but holy crap, that was an understatement!
This story really portrayed how the adoptee brain is wired...it’s a mix of so many emotions and wild rides that it hit the nail on the head.
This is not just another adoptee story...this is a fantastic page turner that would interest anyone that needs a break from their boring day to day life.
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Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Jenny Heijun Wills
- Narrateur(s): Diana Bang
- Durée: 4 h et 59 min
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Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women - sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces - Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
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Adoption Story
- Écrit par Cindy le 2019-11-10
- Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Jenny Heijun Wills
- Narrateur(s): Diana Bang
Awesome...and Educational
Évalué le: 2020-01-29
I was hoping to get an education from this story and I wasn’t disappointed. This is real life! I loved the way Ms. Bang narrated as well. I suggest that anyone that is looking to adopt outside of their own country to give Jenny’s book a read. This is one that I will go back to again and again.
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