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Splitattheroot

Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity

  • Catana Tully

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.

Status: 1 in stock

Number of Pages: 296

Published: 2012

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 978-1479114696

DC#: 305.8 Tu

Category: Books

1 in stock

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