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Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, The: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Shannon Gibney
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Dutton Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-11199-4
Keywords: Adoption, Transracial, Parent and child, Alcoholism, Mental Health, African American, Alienation, Space and time, Time travel
In this blended autobiography/fantasy, Shannon, a teen transracial adoptee, finds her birth mother, but not her Black birth father, already deceased. Archival photographs and documents. Resource list.