Unraveling Bloodlines: How "Relative Strangers" Redefines Family and Belonging
“Adopted people often live with a quiet, lifelong fracture, a deep sense of being unmoored, a feeling of not belonging. No amount of reassuring words fill that void. We are never quite at ease. Never fully home.”
— Louise Brown, “Fifteen Minutes”
Certain human experiences are ineffable. They are deeply visceral, altering our perception, emotions, or physical reality in ways that others can only truly understand by living through them themselves. Such are the lived experiences uncovered in Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship edited by B.K. Jackson (ELJ Editions; 2026).
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