No Place Like Me

Rejection, Reckoning, and How Writing My Story Led Me Home

von Ann Young

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when a search for the woman who gave you life sets in motion a search of a very different kind?For most of her life, Ann Young gave little thought to searching for her biological family. Adopted as an infant, she wondered occasionally about the woman who had given birth to her, but curiosity was never enough to send her looking. Then, in her fifties, that changed. She wanted to know whether her birth mother was still out there-and what she might find if she looked.In No Place Like Me, Ann Young sets out to find her biological roots, never expecting the search to change how she sees herself and her past. Drawing on adoption records, memory, and the perspective that only time can bring, she finds herself returning to a childhood marked by complicated family relationships, a marriage broken by betrayal, the fierce responsibility she felt as a mother. Experiences separated by decades-including relationships in which love and loyalty were not always present-begin to look different when considered together, bringing to the surface truths that had been hidden in plain sight about what she inherited and how it stayed with her.Written with honesty and vulnerability, No Place Like Me explores loss, family, rejection, the lasting impact of adoption, and the transformative power of telling her own story. Finding her birth mother opened a door, but it was the writing that took Ann beyond the search itself. As she puts her life into words, experiences she had lived through without fully understanding their significance take on new meaning.More than an adoption memoir or the story of a search, No Place Like Me is an intimate, deeply reflective account of what happens when Ann looks closely at the life she has lived-and when telling her story becomes part of understanding it.For readers drawn to memoirs of adoption, family relationships, healing, and self-discovery, No Place Like Me is a moving testament to one woman's resilience-and a powerful reminder that where we think we are headed is not always where we end up.

• Themen: Ratgeber Familie und Gesundheit Themen und Fragen Themen und Fragen
• ISBN: 9798995084211
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Making A Way Writing Services LLC