Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity

Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity

In this dramatic and beautifully written memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption and identity, not as the professor of ethnic studies that she became, but as the black child of German settlers in Guatemala, who called her their â€œlittle Moor.â€ Her journey into investigating the mystery of how these White foreigners became her parents begins when she reluctantly considered joining an African-American organization at the U.S. College where she taught. She realized it was not just her foreign accent that alienated her from Blacks. Under layers of privilege (private schools, international travel, the life of a fashion model and actress in Europe) she discovered that her most important story is one of disinheritance.

The authorâ€™s determination to find out who her mother and father really were, and why she was taken from them, tests the love of her White husband and their son, leads her to embrace and then reject the charismatic man she believes to be her biological father, and takes her to the jungles of Guatemala to find a family that has kept her memory alive as legend. In the bookâ€™s shocking ending, she learns truths about her mother, and the callous disrespect committed long ago against mother and child in the name of love.
Tristine Rainer, Director of the Center for Autobiographic Studies;
Author The New Diary and Your Life as Story
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-09-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-09-25
Format	Kindle eBook