American Bastard
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Jan Beatty- BASED ON TRUE STORIES ABOUT ADOPTION: Beatty’s memoir deconstructs what it means to be a “chosen baby” in Western culture
- AN HONEST TAKE ON FAMILY: American Bastard is a frank observation of adoption, living in an orphanage, and the struggle to find comfort in one’s birth parents versus adopted parents.
- SEARCHING FOR ONE'S IDENTITY: What happens when adoption means complete erasure of selfhood?
- FROM CANADA TO UNITED STATES: Beatty searches for her Canadian father, a three-time Stanley Cups-winning hockey player, and her working-class birth mother from Pittsburgh.
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