The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be Audiobook Libro.fm

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Part memoir part speculative fiction The Girl I Am Was and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixedBlack transracial adoptee

Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am Was and Never Will Be a book woven from her true story of growing up as a mixedBlack transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin Powers the name Shannon was given at birth a child raised by a white closeted lesbian

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

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of images documents and resources from the book