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Summary: Reality
Review: This book certainly struck a chord with me. It's honest and open content of the reality of adoption is not only necessary, but healing. I could also relate to the author not only of her childhood, but in her reunion. A wonderfully written book that is a must read for anyone involved in adoption.
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Summary: An Honest Insight to a Young Girls Life Experience
Review: This book has opened my eyes to the emotional intensity of being an adopted child. I have no friends or family that have been adopted, or adopted a child. This book was recommended by someone close to me who has worked with the author. I have to say, that I had nightmares after reading some parts of this book. The raw emotion and honesty brought forth, revealed to me the insensitivity and cruelness that this young girl had to endure. Kasey offers hope of healing in her story, I hope that others who have been in her situation can find strength and personal restoration as she has.
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Summary: The best story about overcoming adversity I have ever read!
Review: This book is not just about adoption. It is about overcoming incredible abuses, making a success of your life, and learning to love and let go. I am not adopted and I could not put the book down. I heard they are thinking of making a movie of this story. I can't wait. I am also an incest survivor and I hope I can meet Kasey some day and tell her how her book changed my life.I also recommend Kasey's second book: "Adoption Forum" and Lori Paris's book: "Follow Your Heart"
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Summary: For the first time in my life, I had answers
Review: This book is simply AWESOME!! For the first time in my life, I knew that in my experiences as an adoptee I wasn't alone. Her book brought to light that it is okay for us to question where we came from and there's nothing wrong with us having to have answers to a past that to no fault of our own, we can't remember, but must if we are to have a complete self. Her remarkable skill of writing her life story in such a way that it brings the pages to life makes you feel like you are there with her as she experiences the ups-and-downs of relinquishment, adoption, and reunion. Thank you Ms. Hamner for inspiring me, as an adoptee, to challenge the myth that I don't deserve to know where I came from. Thank you for having the guts to be real. You are the voice of adoptees all over the world.
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Summary: From An Adoptive Parent
Review: This book is truely eye opening! It is a great book for all member's of the adoption triad. As an adoptive parent I found the book usefull in spotting abandonment issues in my own children as a child of divorce I found it useful in spotting my own abandonment issues. Wonderfully written. A truely honest look from the prespective of an adoptee. Bravo! I have many books on adoption and would rank this among the top two I would recommend! As a matter of fact I am purchasing two more copies for family members.
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Summary: A Must Read For The Prospective Parent ! !
Review: This is an engrossing and painfully honest account of a young woman's experience as an adopted child in our society. I found myself unable to put the book down. As I read through each chapter describing Kasey's experiences growing up in her adoptive home I thought, "This is a must read book for any parent or prospective parent. Especially, someone considering adopting or relinquishing their newborn." One of the most well written accounts I've read in many years. This one is not to be missed ! Thank you Kasey for sharing your very personal and painful experience.
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Summary: Thank You for Opening My Eyes!!!!!!
Review: We need more adoptees like Ms. Hamner to write their stories. After reading Whose Child? (took 2 nights to read it!), I sobbed uncontrollably for 45 minutes. Ms. Hamner awakened much pain that I had been unknowingly surpressing for 34 years. In reunion myself for 10 years, I have never found an adoptee willing to truly open up and express feelings and share stories. No matter what type of adoptive home you come from, good or bad, all adoptees can relate. It's time we started doing more "relating" in order to heal. Thanks to you Kasey, I'm beginning to heal.
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Summary: A lesson for life....
Review: Whose Child? is simultaneously moving and disturbing, for in her retelling, Kasey Hamner presents the complex fabric of human relationships with an unusual commonality of candour and compassion. Within the framework of a straightforward, direct style, the sense of alienation and loneliness which is a common experience amongst many adoptees is made even more accessible to those who know nothing of the experience and deepens the poignancy of the story.
Not every adoptee's story involves abuse. Even though I admit to not being able to imagine what the emotional consequences of such an experience can be, the emotional landscape is depicted with such clarity, that it was not difficult to either empathise or identify with many instances recounted in the book.
Reflections on one's own adoptive experience while reading the book is inevitable and Kasey Hamner's strength and courage in acknowledging the essential nature of her circumstances as they changed and evolved, are exemplary for anyone affected by adoption. "Whose Child?" is more than one person's story; it is a lesson in living life on life's terms, and speaks of an infinite grace in a willingness to accept and thereby, heal. Once I had finished reading Whose Child, I mailed Kasey to thank her for having contributed a singularly important facet missing from the closure of my own adoptive experience: I wrote:
I received your books and have finished Whose Child? I found myself reflected in many of the pages and reading such an account of a life of pain has brought forward several questions, regarding my own journey... In as much as reading an account of someone else's pain can be pleasurable, I did enjoy the way you wrote it... ...Whose Child? has been a sincere lesson for me in fearlessness and I would like to thank you for that. It has given me unexpected insight and I am deeply appreciative of it... Reading this book leaves much to admire.
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