Julie Ryan McGue

Twice the Family (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Growing up as an adoptee and identical twin, Julie McGue will take you on her journey for identity and individuality, searching for answers through tragedy and adversity. What is it like to grow up as an adoptee and be raised with your identical twin? In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago's western suburbs during the 1960s to 1980s, adopted twin sisters Julie and Jenny become the oldest daughters in a big family made up of a mixture of adopted and biological children. The twins' sisterly bond is tight as the two strive for individuality, identity, and belonging. But Julie's parents' continual addition of adopted and biological children to the family leads to a number of painful experiences: they encounter infertility, infant mortality, a child with special needs, and then, when Julie is sixteen, a sudden family tragedy. Faced with these challenges, Julie questions everything-who she is, how she fits in, the circumstances of her adoption, where she belongs, her faith and idea of family. As their family values, parental relationships, and sibling bonds are tested, Julie realizes her adoptive family is held together by love, faith, support, and her parents' commitment to each other and family. But the life her parents have constructed is not one that Julie wants for herself-and as she grows older, she realizes how her parents' goals and dreams differ from her own, and how the experiences that have formed her have provided a road map for the person and mother she wants to be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647427870
• Artikelnr.: 72242385

Autorenporträt

Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. Her first memoir, Twice a Daughter released in May 2021, won multiple awards. She writes a weekly blog and monthly column (The Beacher Newspapers), in which she explores the topics of finding out who you are, where you belong and making sense of it. Julie splits her time between northwest Indiana and Sarasota, Florida.