About the author:
\nMarianne Novy is Professor Emerita of English and Gender\, Sexua lity\, and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama a nd editor of Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture .
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Adoption Memoirs< /em> \;tells inside stories of adoption that popular media mi ss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only ha ppy moments\, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child\, the rac ism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and Jane Jeong Trenka expe rienced\, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parent s Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered.
\nNovy considers 45 memo irs\, mostly from the twenty-first century\, by birthmothers\, adoptees\, and adoptive parents\, about same-race and transracial adoption. These ado ptees\, she recounts\, wanted to learn about their ancestry and appreciate d adoptive parents who helped. Birthmother Amy Seek shows why open adoptio n is not simple\, and many other memoirs tell stories that continue past r eunion.
\nAdoption Memoirs \;will enlighten readers who lack experience with adoption and help those looking for a shared experie nce to also understand adoption from a different standpoint.
\n< strong>Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Book s on Coventry.
\nThis event takes place in partnership with The Adoption Network.