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Loading... A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment (Family Success) (edition 2006)8 | None | 2,203,635 |
(5) | None | In this inspiring book, Brooks writes about his life growing up as an African-American boy on the north side of Pittsburgh. Although money was often tight, his struggling single mother provided her only child with a loving home and devoted extended family. Even the shocking revelation by his mother when Brooks was just eleven that he was adopted didn't prevent the young boy from following his ambitions to go to college and leave the ghetto behind. This is an adoptee's compelling true story which shows how to cross cultural barriers. Heritage and reunion narrative provides powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions In this inspiring book, Brooks writes about his life growing up as an African-American boy on the north side of Pittsburgh. Although money was often tight, his struggling single mother provided her only child with a loving home and devoted extended family. Even the shocking revelation by his mother when Brooks was just eleven that he was adopted didn't prevent the young boy from following his ambitions to go to college and leave the ghetto behind. This is an adoptee's compelling true story which shows how to cross cultural barriers. Heritage and reunion narrative provides powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.
Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to search for his heritage. He found his biological mother in London with his previously unknown British siblings. He then located his biological father and extended family in Nairobi. His international search and the resulting reunions have profoundly affected three families in the United States, England, and Kenya. ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif) | |
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