This was a brilliant series of essays depicting the experience of being an adoptee and growing up in a Western culture.
We so little hear from the point of the adoptee in these narratives, outside of the fictionalised 'hero' narrative detailed in this book (I doubt it'll take more than a minute for you to think of at least five adoptees/orphans in movies and books), and this book does a wonderful job of altering the perspective we have been shown our whole lives.