Writing with Raw Honesty about Family, featuring Rebecca Carroll
Memoir Nation
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The Paradox of Adoption
Roxanne Jones: Your memoir is a type of case study of white privilege. And it's stark and arresting, but not heavy handed; you struck an important balance there. So I'm curious how you approach this book and whether you knew you'd have such a big white readership. You know, because abandonment is my central trauma, that means that my baseline existence comes with a deeply profoundly internalized sense of insecurity. When when you then add race into that equation, things get significantly more complex and painful, right?
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