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The Ginger Child - On Family, Loss and Adoption (Paperback, Main)
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The Ginger Child - On Family, Loss and Adoption (Paperback, Main)
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A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's
attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a
social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on
their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question
comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling
candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer
couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the
inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the
emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to
others. This uniquely powerful book moves deftly between
heartbreaking memoir and illuminating meditation on parenting,
adoption and queerness in contemporary culture, stopping along the
way to consider recent science fiction film, camp horror
television, fiction and visual art. At the end, which could also be
the beginning of a new journey, Flanery asks whether we might all
imagine ourselves as ginger children-fragile, sensitive, more
easily hurt than we think possible, but with the hope that we are
also survivors, with greater powers of resilience than we know.
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