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When You Never Said Goodbye: An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother
273 pp.
| Persea |
March, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-89255-479-9$17.95
(3)
YA
Liz McLane (The Secret of Me; Girl in the Mirror), now eighteen, is in NYC ("THE place to be a poet") attending NYU while searching for her birth mother. Through moving, authentic-feeling verse and journal entries, Kearney brings Liz's adoption story to a satisfying resolution. As the author discusses in an appended note, Liz's trilogy is based on her own experience as an adoptee.