A. K. Snyder

Redefining Family (eBook, ePUB)

A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an unconventional blend of poetry and prose, a birthmother shares her experience of an open adoption. The fear and uncertainty in planning. The heartbreak of losing her child. And the work of healing and building a life after placement. This memoir hits every emotion on the way to the happy and hopeful ending.

I am not ready, not able, to raise you. Ten years too early, I need time to grow up.

To offer you, I have love. And nothing else.

You need more than I have to give, Unless I give you up.

To parents who are ready, waiting, to raise you. Ten years wanting, with a ready home.

Parents who have love, And everything else, too.

If I do it, If I break my own heart to spare yours, Will it work? Will you be happier, healthier this way?

And will I ever be okay again?

Twenty years of a birthmother's experience-the fear, grief, healing, and acceptance-are exposed in this intimate narrative. It will break your heart, then heal it, with new perspectives on adoption, openness, and the complex ways we define family.

Summary

Seventeen and pregnant, Alycea spends her senior year planning for the future. The only way she can give her daughter a stable childhood is to place her for adoption.

Even in ideal circumstances-a voluntary placement in an open adoption with generous adoptive parents-a birthmother grieves the loss of her child. With a broken heart and heavy past, Alycea must figure out how to keep moving forward, build her own life, and walk the fine line required to keep the adoption open.

Her path to healing means redefining what it means to love, to be a good parent, and to be a family. This memoir hits every emotion on the way to the happy and hopeful ending.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wandering River Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780578614663
• Artikelnr.: 58301162

Autorenporträt

A. K. Snyder writes personal narratives that tackle major life transitions. With unconventional lyricism, she lays out the heart of a story in bare bones language.

She also writes speculative fiction, with a focus on how we can apply technology to solve our most unsolvable issues. Her short stories and flash fiction tend to delve deep into a single emotion and carve a way forward through difficult circumstances.

Her work has been published by Fireside Fiction, John's Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and Transmundane Press. Memoirs include Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness (January 2020, Wandering River Press) and Turtle Envy: Scuba Diving as an Anxious, Cursing Newbie (June 2020).

A. K. Snyder lives with her husband in Florida. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association, and she serves on the board of Tampa Writers Alliance. If she's not writing, she's most likely kayaking the local rivers, working in the garden, or walking her beagle around the neighborhood while chuckling to an audiobook on her headphones.

More information about A. K. can be found at aksnyderbooks.com.