The first half of this book, The Adoption Papers, is thought-provoking and uncomfortable. The two other voices are more about body- I love Jackie Kay's style of taking different perspectives and interweaving them. The adoptive mother's perspective is the strongest for me, the most fleshed out, but perhaps I only feel that as a white woman who'd like to adopt! Or perhaps it's because she has power over the other two voices, or because Kay is drawing on her intimate, nuanced knowing of her mother. I love Jackie Kay's style of taking different perspectives and interweaving them. I also like the bonus poems on being Scottish, sexuality and the working class. Her writing is thorough, and deals with a subject so poignantly, that isn't often thought of by most. I mean, it is difficult to adopt a child at anytime, but Jackie Kay is emphasising how difficult it was in the 1960's. I still have unanswered questions, that will never be answered. I was adopted at a few months old, and it was an emotional roller-coaster for me, to finally understand the whole process of what my birth mother went through, and my adoptive mother too. The mother, the birth mother and the daughter. It is told by several different viewpoints. I mean, it is difficult to adopt a ch The Adoption Papers is the story of a girls adoption, by a white Scottish couple.
The Adoption Papers is the story of a girls adoption, by a white Scottish couple.
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