What happens to adoptees that emerge as half a person from the closed adoption system of yesteryear? Jen Bryan takes the reader along with her from the moment she remembers knowing she was sopted as a young child to her harrowing adolescence, and finally to a search for truth that leads only to more questions.
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Shocking illustration of what happens when adoption produces psychological conflict and confusion instead of a happily ever after ending. Honest and gut-wrenching.
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Jen grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, living briefly in New York City while she attempted the life of a starving artist and found that she appreciated fine food far too much. Finally settling in Austin, Texas, she now lives on the outskirts in a small suburban house with her husband, son, and lots of cats.
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A Compelling Personal Account of an Adoptee's Experiences,
By A Customer
This review is from: Explication : One Adoptee's Experience (Paperback)
Not your basic Oprah-like happy reunion of adoptee and birth-family, this book details the very rocky and painful teen and young adult years of an adoptee as she searches for her identity and hopes to find it with her birthmother.Jen allows us to peek into the mind of a teen suffering genealogical bewilderment, a syndrome experienced by adoptees. In Explication, we share with Jen through her painful teen years, the joy and loss of her first love (a fellow adoptee), and the reunion with her birthmother and birthsisters. A compelling read, neither my daughter or I could put the book down. I highly recommend this book, whether you are an adoptee, a birthparent, or just looking for a good read.
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Girl Interrupted,
By G Gachman (Buffalo,NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Explication : One Adoptee's Experience (Paperback)
Adolesent ramblings of a disturbed young woman. With help all around the author wallows in self pity, and wants to Know why no one loves her for the ungrateful, shaved head, spiteful, pill popping,alcohol drinking, manipulative, promiscuous, runaway she admits she is. This poor woman needs therapy and I need my head examined for buying this book.
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The View of a BirthMother,
By Still Learning "learning" (texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Explication : One Adoptee's Experience (Paperback)
A social statement in social abuse married to a white collar crime; criminal greed and behavior finds ignorance in exploitation by greed ethics and this book reveals the conclusion in real life.Adoption or abortion the question of life or death for the unborn in a poverty uneducated circumstance. A Pregnancy resulting from looking for love by Life's throwaway abused child/girl/woman.(The seed donator was a Texan from the panhandle; a Pisces named Chris Swift, a married liar with three kids) The unmarried pregnant female with no social or family tools with which to survive wounded unwanted, existing through a life of abuse misuse exploitation and humiliation, a 10th grade education. Contacted a trusted (unknown to her) unethical attorney (exploiting) dating her beautiful damaged sister to arrange for a direct(not private) adoption. Trust in a professional who only saw this adoption as a way to make money under the table. Trusting is the 1st requirement in exploitation of adoption. The requirements for the future parents (designated from the Ozzie and Harriet TV parents). They both must have college degrees; both religious, a settled 30ish older childless couple whose unmet desire for a child spanned a long time. If the couple could not be found then forget the adoption. The pittance of cash she was able to borrow and live on was to be paid back; medical cost covered. The attorney was to insert into the adoption paperwork, medical contact information, if the baby should ever need a body part the girl was available. To tell the parents the child was loved but for her future health and welfare could not be kept. (the problem culminanted with the unethical attorney; a thief who sold the baby to the highest bidders; a young couple unable to pass regular adoption channels; the unbornchild/unwedmother were exploited for money). At 12:30 a.m.on the night of birth the laboring terrified christen girl(baptized 4X before turnig 10 years old) was dropped on the outside steps by a sister going out for another night of drinking instead of staying with her youngest sister at the dark forbidding catholic hospital. Her clicking heels underlined her abandonment, the tall safety haloed lights revealed the mist of baby rain drops tears from God. How ironic the rain, alone, the silence. The nurses/nuns led her to a curtained examining rooms, voicing disapproval of the unwed pregnancy. Led her to the high bed then walked off. Another laboring woman filled the air with screaming and yelling; the screaming singing mix in echoing voices with gleeful shouting of winning from a poker game. Two or three times someone stuck a shadowed head in and a you ok, the girl begged for the bathroom, the head dismissed her with a disrespectful shrug and tone use the bed pan. The pain was great and one of old familiarity a friend, she refused to scream accomplishing it by biting holes on the inside of her mouth, the salt taste diverted her attention a trick learned from her father's training sessions to retain silence. The pain teacher the lesson circling and riveted around her solo universe. No one ever told her anything; certainly not about labor, only that look wait until you find out, the huge scare. she could handle this too alone like everything else; by herself with no one to support or share it with except the unamed demanding entrance into the world. The girl used her hands, arms, and legs to intertwine in the antique bed railing her body hung slung sideway not on the bed at all now the pain eased dangling sideways from the railing the tiredness of clinging to the rail filtered awareness of the throbbing white hot pain enveloping her being. Dawn of light stabbed from beneath the heavy curtains, shift change, new nurse, new attitude, Aw honey untangling the twisted girl from the rail, explaining it's accepted that a bed was messed in and not a shameful act. Then checked the progress yelling Oh my god! this girl is having a baby after touching the crowning head. She was perfect in everyway, a full head of hair and delicate soft strong hands with long fingers. A quiet baby with large eyes. BEAUTIFUL. She was going to have a better life than the birthmother that was her two gifts life and a future. (unknowning of the transfer of large sums of money; the young non-degree parents using this baby to save a shakey marriage; the future blackmail to the young parents) The extended painful delivery created by ignorance of the girl accompanied by action judgment to a sinning unwed mother by the religious judgmental uncaring night staff. The unethical attorney flew from Tucson paid the bill; took the bundle with a nurse to fly to Boston where the two Professors at a university were waiting for their child. That was his story to the birthmother. The baby grew up and wrote this book mad at her birthmother, mad at the parents who paid for her, mad at the world for not having the life she wanted. Truth is relative. To parties involved. Everyone should know their birthright. That information was "SUPPOSEDLY" given with the baby's papers at transfer; but since it became a lucrative shaded adoption; a purchased adoption the attorney's closed it and removed any information to the birthmother. One can only hope writing Explication releases the author from the past. The future is bright and fertile and the past should be used for learning. Truth is create by ones view and is whatever one makes it. I think anyone thinking adoption and trusting the professional system should read this book. Very creative in Jennifer Bryan using her monetary judgement to purchase the internet tools to create her internet company and assist in the creation of an online publishing company to make her an author of this book. A podium to damm the people she judges have treated her badly. As one who never aborted; I always looked for the best solution in unforgiving circumstances as adoption. Life instead of death. My personal experience has changed that fundamental belief.
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