Description
Some journeys take you across the country. Others take you to a place where you find yourself.
As an adoptee, Jenny has avoided mirrors. She doesn’t know who she is on many levels. Now, after a lifetime of dead ends, she learns that her birth parents are alive and willing to meet her. What starts out as her one shot at learning the truth of her origins turns into something more. Her half-sister ends up joining her on a road trip that will change everything she thought she knew about who she is.
Between dive diners and roadside motels, the miles unravel a story she never expected. Her half-sister knows little, family secrets run deep. Upon meeting her birth father, she hears a tale full of carefully constructed lies he’s told for years. About who he was, where he came from. Then there was the chat with a birth mother whose heartbreak runs deeper than any secret she kept. Each revelation peels back another layer of what lay behind the reason Jenny had been adopted. The why of her.
Because the trip was never just about finding them. It was about finding the parts of herself she’d spent a lifetime trying to find.
Heartfelt, honest, and brimming with the messy beauty of family, Discovering Daughter is a story for anyone who has ever wondered where they came from — and discovered that the answer is only the beginning of the story.
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