Author's e-books - parents. Page - 2
In this memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption, and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala. Her journey into the mystery that shrouded her early years begins in the US when she realized it was not just her foreign accent that alienated her from Blacks. Under layers of privilege (private schools, international travel, the life of a fashion model and actress in Europe) she discovered that her most important story is one of disinheritance. The author’s determination to find out who her parents really were and why she was taken from them, tests the love of her White husband and their son, and returns her to Guatemala to find a family that kept her memory alive as legend. In the end, she learns truths about the women who were her mothers, and the disrespect committed long ago against a birthmother and her child in the name of love.
THIS IS NOT COMPLETED!
Two weeks after her eighteenth birthday Lissa's parents tell her something; she's arranged to wed.
Not wanting to be a pawn in her father's latest business merger, she plans to defy them; something she's never done. But then she meets her fiancé; he's handsome, charming, and willing to make a deal with her - he'll court her, on the condition that if she still doesn't want to get married by the planned date, or if she doesn't love him, he'll let her walk away.
She's not worried though - falling in love? Yeah right!
In this memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption, and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala. Her journey into the mystery that shrouded her early years begins in the US when she realized it was not just her foreign accent that alienated her from Blacks. Under layers of privilege (private schools, international travel, the life of a fashion model and actress in Europe) she discovered that her most important story is one of disinheritance. The author’s determination to find out who her parents really were and why she was taken from them, tests the love of her White husband and their son, and returns her to Guatemala to find a family that kept her memory alive as legend. In the end, she learns truths about the women who were her mothers, and the disrespect committed long ago against a birthmother and her child in the name of love.
THIS IS NOT COMPLETED!
Two weeks after her eighteenth birthday Lissa's parents tell her something; she's arranged to wed.
Not wanting to be a pawn in her father's latest business merger, she plans to defy them; something she's never done. But then she meets her fiancé; he's handsome, charming, and willing to make a deal with her - he'll court her, on the condition that if she still doesn't want to get married by the planned date, or if she doesn't love him, he'll let her walk away.
She's not worried though - falling in love? Yeah right!