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A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment (Family Success)
A Wealth of Family An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage Reunion and Enrichment - Family Success Author:Thomas Brooks -- Heartwarming and Inspirational True Story Shows the Power of Love -- — This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty. — Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single moth... more »er in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to search for his heritage. He found his biological mother in London with his previously unknown British siblings. He then located his biological father and extended family in Nairobi. His international search and the resulting reunions have profoundly affected three families in the United States, England, and Kenya.
A Wealth of Family is a "Best Books" Award Winner as selected by USA Book News.« less