The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption By Shannon Gibney Material:Hard Cover Less a bildungsroman than a

Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation

“Wonderfully complex and carefully crafted

When he snatched me in the middle of the ceremony

But when a difficult decision looms

he was at a wedding his bossy sister

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption By Shannon Gibney Material:Hard Cover Less a bildungsroman than aPart memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed Black transracial adoptee. Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of growing up as a mixed Black transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth, a child raised by a white, closeted