Summer Reading: The Adoption Memoirs Inside this Adoptee’s Beach Bag

“Where better to read an adoption memoir than on the beach in front of my childhood home,” I thought, stuffing more books than I knew I’d be able to make time for into my suitcase. A bottle of 70 SPF sunscreen, floppy hat, towel, and swim suit, lay all helter-skelter atop, The Gathering Place by Emma Stevens, Goodbye Again by Candace Cahill, and Parallel Universe by David B. Bohl. I’d met all three authors a few months earlier at the Untangling Our Roots conference, in Louisville, Kentucky.