Split At The Root: A Memoir Of Love And Lost Identity
by Catana Tully /
2012 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.