Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity
Catana Tully (Author)
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In this memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption, and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies she
became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala. Her
journey into the mystery that shrouded her early years begins in the US
when she realized it was not just her foreign accent that alienated her from Blacks.
Under layers of privilege (private schools, international travel, the
life of a fashion model and actress in Europe) she discovered that her most important story is one of disinheritance.
The author's determination to find out who her parents really were
and why she was taken from them, tests the love of her White husband
and their son, and returns her to Guatemala to find a family that kept
her memory alive as legend. In the end, she learns truths about the women who were her mothers, and the disrespect committed long ago against a birthmother and her child in the name of love.
- Rank: #69771 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-09-25
- Released on: 2012-09-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
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