Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship

by Julie Ryan McGue

Overview

Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship. It challenges the reader to embrace all of who we come to be, and to discern with whom and where we belong. Because belonging defines the human experience, and it is what nourishes our spirit, fuels us with purpose, and compels us to soar beyond the limitations of our lived experience.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166071477
Publisher:	Muse Literary
Publication date:	11/01/2023
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	744,495
File size:	2 MB

Editorial Reviews

"Whether you read this book from cover-to-cover or pick up the volume and choose a daily or random selection, your life will be enhanced by these reader-friendly passages bursting with truth and encouragement, and you will realize the true meaning of family, belonging, and being loved."

-Laurie Scheer, writing mentor/instructor

"McGue examines her own experience with adoption and reunion under the bright light of identity and belonging. The result forces a reconsideration of what it means to be placed for adoption, what it means to adopt, and, more broadly, what it means to fit within a family."

-Jeff Hoffmann, author of Other People's Children

"I was intrigued by the author's sensitive perspective, impressed by her scope of knowledge, and found comfort in her heart-felt stories about what family means to her. Ultimately, I rejoiced in Julie's hard-won wisdom as though it were my own."

-Carlyn Montes De Oca, award-winning author of Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family, Secrets, and Second Chances

"Trusted, best-selling and well loved author Julie McGue's observations and wisdom surrounding the world of adoption, belonging, and kinship are on display within this collection of astute and reader-friendly passages bursting with truth and encouragement. Whether you read this book from cover-to-cover or casually pick up the volume and choose a daily or random selection, your life will be enhanced as you realize the true meaning of family, belonging, and being loved. From being humble and grateful to realizing your true passion and pretty much every topic in-between, Belonging Matters, shines through and through with every page. You'll feel the support of a universal energy of family and kinship all around and who doesn't want that? Enjoy and embrace this book, your own family will thank you.

-Laurie Scheer, writing mentor/instructor

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