My Father's Daughter Author:Hannah Pool For the first 21 years of my life this is what I knew about my background..I was born in Eritrea, a tiny country on the ne coast of AFrica; I was placed in an orphanage in Asmara, That's' it. At 6 months, I was adopted by a British academic..and then one da y, I received a letter w ith an Eritrean postmark. It was from my brother in Asmara, one ... more »I never knew I had.« less