The Girl I am, Was, and Never Will be : : a Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
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Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Printz honor book - 2024
PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton Books, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 237 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593111994
0593111990
SUBJECTS
Gibney, Shannon -- Fiction.
Interracial adoption -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Adoption -- Fiction.
Racially mixed families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Adoption -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Speculative fiction.
Biographical fiction.