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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPan Macmillan UK
- Dimensions8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches
- ISBN-101509858393
- ISBN-13978-1509858392
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- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1509858393
- ISBN-13 : 978-1509858392
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches
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Much later in life, Jackie Kay took up a serious search for her birth parents. She found them easily (thanks in part to the Internet), but making real contact wasn't quite so easy as meeting them. She brings us to her meetings with her birth mother and birth father - who have both become religious zealots. Sharp contrast to her communist adoptive parents. Luckily we spend much more time with the adoptive parents, who are lovingly portrayed and a hoot to boot.
No matter how many times you've read variations on the adoption reunion journey, there is always something new to learn, and a new set of emotions to observe. As a poetic writer, Jackie Kay is able to express what might at first seem the same old stuff in ways well worth reading. And there is an unexpected emotional payoff at the end.
Highly recommended. And I wish they'd used the cover photo from the UK edition instead of the the more abstrace one on the US edition.
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I really appreciated Jackie Kay’s insights on adoption and the racism that is “ I’ m not
racist but where do you come from? “
This is debatable because as a Geordie people used to say to me “Where do you come from?” The accent made some think of Ireland and even Wales.
I took it as a “ I can’t quite place you question .” I can now see that to Jackie it seems racist but was it?
I may say to a British Asian “ Where do you come from ?” Meaning “Where do you live?” Or “Which part of India did your family originally come from?”
I am not being racist but interested as I believe that the only race is The Human Race and our skin pigmentation due to where we originated is a fascinating aspect of our race.
I suppose it depends how the question is put like the tone of voice, the stresses put on different words the whole body attitude.
I had hoped I would live long enough to see World Citizenship when where you came from was a matter of interest not a matter of ranking you in some racial order of intelligence or importance. It grieves me that colour is still a way of judging people.
Adoption and the wish to find ones birth parents is fascinating.
My father died in the Second World War so when doctors, ask about possible family inherited health problems, I have to say that I do not know. My father was also an orphan and the paperwork about his origins is not there.
Some friends adopted children have found their birth parents with varying success. Disappointment, acceptance and relief. What a difficult situation for all to be in.
Love as Jackie shows, the love and understanding her adoptive parents showed, helped her cope with finding out the truth of her birth parents,
There were parts of the book which I found repetitive but then realised that her story was not a work of fiction but told it as it actually happened.
I would recommend this to all to read.
I was not a great fan of Nicola Sturgeon but her review showed her humanity and made me view her in a different light.
Don’t judge people BT what you see on tv!!!