Unraveling Bloodlines: How "Relative Strangers" Redefines Family and Belonging
Not that each contributor to this essential anthology doesn’t try to put language to feeling like an outsider inside your own family (circus mirror), or finding out you aren’t who you thought you were (tectonic shift). But speaking from my own experience as an adult adoptee and sister of four recently-discovered half brothers, a deep thrum of one’s outlier status escapes full articulation. You can circle it and flit in and out, but you can’t make others fully understand anymore than you can make someone who hasn’t gone through it understand childbirth or, I imagine, looking back at earth from outer space.
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