This poetry collection is (half) about a black woman's exprience of being adopted by a white couple.

The first half of the book is told between the daughter, her adoptive mother and her birth mother, using different typefaces to differentiate between their voices. I read this on my phone using the library app. For some reason, the key at the beginning which tells you who was which typeface didn't match up with who was actually who in the poems. This meant I was incredibly confused for a lot of these poems.

The second half of them are unrelated poems about being Scottish/queer/race. I found it confusing when the poems switched to this, constantly trying to make a missing connection to the adoption side. This side had the best poem in the collection - 'Dressing Up'.

The poems are good but in quite a few, it wasn't clear what their endings were trying to say so it's ⭐⭐⭐ for me. It's definitely a book that could have been written today rather than the in the 1990s. It's just a shame that the blurb and typeface mistake let it down for me.