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"In this searing and seriously funny memoir Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate it. Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, she was adopted...
"A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her...
This is a memoir of the author's childhood days in Vancouver's Chinatown, during the 1930s and 1940s. He is able to piece together deeply held family secrets that came from China in the form of "paper shadows." With an e...
Like many adopted children, the author struggled to fill a void that would not go away. She chronicles her difficult odyssey to discover the identity of her real parents. She discusses the critical issues that face those...