• "Brittany Penner is fierce and fearless..."

    Susan Choi, award-winning author of Trust Exercise and Flashlight

  • "Here is a story about adoption, race and pain that is not about finding a perfect solution, but that provokes still-necessary questions about colonialism and kinship like nothing I’ve seen before."

    Jenny Heijun Wills, award-winning author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. and Everything and Nothing At All

  • "An absolutely mesmerizing debut. It was a privilege to bear witness to Brittany Penner's story about intergenerational trauma, identity, and belonging."

    Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance

  • "With themes of colonialism, intergenerational trauma and healing, Penner's memoir is candid and caring, heartwrenching and hopeful."

    Ms. Magazine