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Love & Genetics by Rachel Elliott and Mark MacDonald / Memoir
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Welcome to Memoir Week #2!
Co-authors Rachel Elliott and Mark MacDonald are just more than just co-authors, their relationship is what gets explored deeply in the shared memoir Love & Genetics: a True Story of Adoption, Surrogacy, and the Meaning of Family. Discussing the writing journey with author Rachel Elliott in this episode, it's a true wonder to get to talk about hope and the meaning of family.
About the book:
When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. When Mark, adopted at birth, set out to FIND his genetic family as an adult, he found something he never expected-three full-blood siblings, including a persistent sister who would alter the course of his life. He finds himself faced with the emotional task of coming to know his entire birth family, along with the unintended impact it has on his parents and his marriage. This raises age-old questions around the understanding of his own identity and his place in the world-now framed in extraordinarily real and explicit terms: What defines family? Nature or nurture? Life rarely affords such an opportunity for self-examination.
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