Welcome Readers!  Thank you so much for reading my work.  I appreciate it so much.  In writing Somebody Else's Daughter, I was interested in exploring identity and the variety of ways in which we struggle to understand ourselves in a complex world.  Writing about adoption was something I have wanted to do for a long time, not only because I am a happily adopted person, but because it was an opportunity to unravel certain misconceptions about what it means to be adopted, how it feels to be an adopted teenager, and how not knowing about one's history is sometimes more disruptive than knowing the truth.  read more