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The Ginger Child

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Ginger Child

By Patrick (Author) Flanery

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About the book

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, an...Show more

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ISBN

9781786497246

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Ginger Child

Format

Hardcover

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