The girl I am, was, and never will be : a speculative memoir of transracial adoption / Shannon Gibney.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Dutton Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 237 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593111994
- 0593111990
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book | Main Library | YA Fiction | In Case You Missed It | GIBNEY, SHANNON | ICYMI - Recently New | Available | 33111011290166 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, this novelexplores 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ages 14 and up. Dutton Books.
Grades 10-12. Dutton Books.
Erin Powers navigates growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee being raised by a white, closeted lesbian mother. Based on the author's experience.
Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket