Book description
Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees includes the essays and poems of 33 writers, ages 8 to over 50, raised in six countries (the US, Canada, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and Australia). It is the first ever anthology by Ethiopian adoptees.
This anthology shares Ethiopian adopteesāā¦
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The prevailing narrative regarding adoption, at least in the U.S., is crafted by adoption professionals and adoptive parents and largely overlooks the experiences of the parties directly impactedāthe adoptees themselves. As an adopteeāone who undertook a search for and was reunited with my first family, reassuming the name I was given at birthāI am always on the lookout for the work of other adoptees. Only we truly understand what it is like to be āsplitā between two families, to lose our roots and culture, andāperhaps most devastatingānot to have our losses acknowledged. These stories, by Ethiopian adoptees, challenge traditional narrativesā¦
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