Adoption Memoirs with Marianne Novy!

We are excited to welcome Marianne Novy, Professor Emerita of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh to Perrysburg on Friday, June 13, 2025!

"Adoption Memoirs" tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the twenty-first century, by birthmothers, adoptees, and adoptive parents and shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay, and Jane Jeong Trenka experienced, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parents Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered.

This book is an important work that treads new ground. It shows that “happy endings” are something for fiction. Real life is much more complicated, and only by facing uncomfortable truths can anything be done.

Order your copy here: https://gatheringvolumes.com/item/uxX3cMoLlaKt1IdXjPMBeg

You may also like the following events from Gathering Volumes:

• This Saturday, 14th June, 08:00 pm, Bedazzle a Book Cover with Authors E M Anderson & Anastasia Ryan! in Perrysburg
• Next Thursday, 19th June, 05:00 pm, June Brewery Book Fair in Toledo
• Next Sunday, 22nd June, 02:30 pm, Decolonizing Ukraine with Greta Lynn Uehling! in Perrysburg

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